ZAGREB, Jan 31 (Hina) - A symbolic end of the UN Peace Forces (UNPF) military mission for Former Yugoslavia was marked on Wednesday by a farewell festivity given in honour of the Commander- In-Chief of the UN Peace Forces, General
Bernard Janvier, in the main UN headquarters in Zagreb.
ZAGREB, Jan 31 (Hina) - A symbolic end of the UN Peace Forces
(UNPF) military mission for Former Yugoslavia was marked on
Wednesday by a farewell festivity given in honour of the Commander-
In-Chief of the UN Peace Forces, General Bernard Janvier, in the
main UN headquarters in Zagreb. #L#
UN Secretary-General's special envoy for relations with NATO
in the Former Yugoslavia, Kofi Annan said in his farewell address
that the progress of establishing peace had not only been the
result of the warring sides' will or of the Dayton Peace Accord,
but also of the engagement and participation of UN Peace Mission
troops.
Before leaving, General Janvier and Kofi Annan paid their
respects to the 213 UN soldiers who had been killed and 1,485
soldiers who had been wounded during the mission which lasted
almost four years.
Closing of the UN main headquarters in Zagreb still did not
mean that all UN troops would be leaving all of the former
Yugoslavia. Although the Implementation Force (IFOR) had officially
taken over UN's duties in Bosnia-Herzegovina on December 20, UN
troops will remain deployed in Macedonia and in Eastern Slavonia
where the United Nations Transitional Administration (UNTAES) had
been established with the aim of reintegrating the area into
Croatia.
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