SARAJEVO, 20 Nov (Hina) - Members of the NATO Rapid Reaction Force in Europe have completed their mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina and are on their way back to their headquarters in Germany. The commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction
Corps (ARRC), General Michael Walker handed over his office to General William Crouch, IFOR chief commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The ceremony took place in the IFOR headquarters in Ilidza, Sarajevo.
SARAJEVO, 20 Nov (Hina) - Members of the NATO Rapid Reaction Force
in Europe have completed their mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
are on their way back to their headquarters in Germany. The
commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), General
Michael Walker handed over his office to General William Crouch,
IFOR chief commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The ceremony took place
in the IFOR headquarters in Ilidza, Sarajevo. #L#
In his farewell speech, General Walker stressed that IFOR
soldiers had created conditions for the establishment of permanent
peace in the past 11 months. That task had not been accomplished
without victims, Walker said, recalling that 52 IFOR members had
been killed and 150 had been wounded during the IFOR mission in
Bosnia.
After a short stay in Germany, General Walker will return to
Great Britain, where he is to take over control of his country's
ground forces.
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