SARAJEVO, Feb 18, (Hina) - NATO Stabilisation Force (SFOR) members, based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, will not participate in a possible operation of international military forces of implementing the Kosovo peace agreement, SFOR Spokesman
in Sarajevo Glenn Chamberlain said on Thursday. The SFOR has a mandate in Bosnia, Chamberlain told a press conference adding the SFOR was not included in preparations of NATO conducted and supervised operation in that part of the former Yugoslavia. The Kosovo peace plan, currently being negotiated in the French town of Rambouillete, envisages deployment of 26,000 NATO member-countries' soldiers. Their duties would include insuring the retreat of majority of Serb soldiers and policemen from this southern Yugoslav province, as well as the disarmament of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The majority of the Kosovo Forces (KFOR) would include members of NATO's ACE Rapid Reaction
SARAJEVO, Feb 18, (Hina) - NATO Stabilisation Force (SFOR) members,
based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, will not participate in a possible
operation of international military forces of implementing the
Kosovo peace agreement, SFOR Spokesman in Sarajevo Glenn
Chamberlain said on Thursday.
The SFOR has a mandate in Bosnia, Chamberlain told a press
conference adding the SFOR was not included in preparations of NATO
conducted and supervised operation in that part of the former
Yugoslavia.
The Kosovo peace plan, currently being negotiated in the French
town of Rambouillete, envisages deployment of 26,000 NATO member-
countries' soldiers. Their duties would include insuring the
retreat of majority of Serb soldiers and policemen from this
southern Yugoslav province, as well as the disarmament of the
Kosovo Liberation Army.
The majority of the Kosovo Forces (KFOR) would include members of
NATO's ACE Rapid Reaction Corps, based in Germany.
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