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  SFOR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stabilisation Force (SFOR) was a NATO-led multinational force in Bosnia and Herzegovina which was tasked with upholding the Dayton Agreement.
The commanders of the SFOR, who each served one year terms were General William Crouch, General Eric Shineski, General Montgomery Meigs, Lt. General Ronald Adams, Lt. General Michael Dodson, Lt. General John Sylvester, Lt. General William E. Ward, and Major General Virgil Packett.
Troop levels were reduced to approximately 12,000 by the close of 2002, and to approximately 7,000 by the close of 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SFOR   (327 words)

  
 General Accounting Office
SFOR levels in Bosnia increased from about 31,700 troops in August 1998 to about 36,100 troops at the time of the September elections in Bosnia\4 but are expected to decrease again by November 1998.
SFOR's actions in all of these areas were consistent with its Dayton mission and were part of much broader international efforts that helped accelerate the pace of Dayton implementation.
The mandate of IFOR and later SFOR was to (1) monitor and enforce the military aspects of the agreement, including the separation and cantonment of the Bosniak, Bosnian Croat, and Bosnian Serb militaries in Bosnia;\2 and (2) support the operation's civilian organizations in accomplishing their missions, when requested and if resources allowed.
www.fas.org /man/gao/nsiad-99-019.htm   (10119 words)

  
 SFOR Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina
SFOR has the same robust rules of engagement for the use of force, should it be necessary to accomplish its mission and to protect itself.
In the new structure SFOR continues to have its HQ in the Sarajevo area (transferred in 2000 from the Sarajevan suburb of Ilidza to the purpose-built Camp Butmir).
SFOR worked with the authorities of BiH to ensure a secure environment for the important Balkan Stability Pact Summit held in Zetra Ice Stadium, Sarajevo, 29 to 30 July 1999.
www.nato.int /sfor/docu/d981116a.htm   (2044 words)

  
 PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 1999
The SFOR commander used a format called Instructions to the Parties to inform all concerned of inappropriate behavior; the Instructions identified activities that were inconsistent with Annex 1-A of the GFAP and that consequently would not be condoned.
SFOR and its civilian counterparts moved to neutralize the means being used by the Pale clique to enforce discipline within the Serb factions, to consolidate their grip on the RS, and to resist the requirements agreed to in the Dayton Accords.
SFOR conducts quarterly a Joint Military Commission (JMC) meeting to be attended by all three entities' chiefs of staff and chaired by the SFOR commander or by the SFOR Deputy Commander for Operations.
www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/99spring/cirafici.htm   (4924 words)

  
 SFOR Plans Reduction of Troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 17, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
SFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has begun preparations to implement the recent decision by NATO defense ministers to reduce the number of troops from approximately 11,900 to a deterrent force of around 7,000, according to a statement released by NATO December 17.
SFOR's principal purpose remains to contribute to the maintenance of a safe and secure environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina that allows the international community and national authorities to develop accountable governments that promote peace, stability and respect for human rights, economic well being and self sufficiency.
SFOR is also committed to support the rule of law throughout the country and supports the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)'s efforts to apprehend Persons Indicted for War Crimes and hand them over to the appropriate authorities.
www.usembassy.it /file2003_12/alia/a3121703.htm   (372 words)

  
 TCC - Balkans:Chronology:SFOR
SFOR, and IFOR before it, have made repeated efforts to assist the former warring factions in meeting their obligations but results have continued to fall well short of expectations.
Solana specified the three crucial objectives of the SFOR mission before the end of its mandate return of refugees to be done differently from the current practice, reformation of police forces and armament control Joulwan has stressed that SFOR has a limited mandate expiring in June 1998.
According to SFOR the shooting came after an SFOR military police unit responded to a call from Bosnian police who said gunmen were in the area of a Jewish cemetery.
www.cybercomm.nl /~stp/balkan/sfor_chron_1.html   (14059 words)

  
 TCC - Balkans:SFOR background
SFOR promoted freedom of movement across the Inter Entity Boundary Line (IEBL) for all citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina but was not expected to guarantee the movement of individuals throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina or forcibly return refugees.
SFOR worked closely with the High Representative, the International Police Task Force, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
SFOR assisted their efforts in such areas as the conduct of elections, the return of refugees and displaced persons, the maintenance of law and order and the investigation of war crimes, tasks essential to the long-term consolidation of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
home.wanadoo.nl /tcc/balkan/sfor_back_1.html   (657 words)

  
 CER | Bosnia: SFOR raids Croat bank
Following this week's SFOR action, (suspended) bank spokesperson Milan Šutalo was quoted by Habena News Agency as saying High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch's "argument of force, instead of the force of argument, only confirms his impotence." Šutalo did not, of course, use these words to describe the Mostar mobs or the Grude gunmen.
SFOR had told the government earlier that week that it was the Federation's own responsibility to secure those areas.
SFOR spokesperson Jorg Lehmann told Agence France Presse that the situation in southern Bosnia was not tense and that SFOR was monitoring the barracks.
www.ce-review.org /01/14/bosnianews14.html   (1241 words)

  
 Separate Opinion of Judge Robinson
Much of what is sought by the accused from SFOR is typical of the material that would be required in some domestic jurisdictions by a person challenging the legality of his arrest, and which the arresting authority would be obliged to provide.
It is immaterial whether SFOR’s action is characterised, as it is in the decision of the North Atlantic Council of 16 December 1995, as a detention, rather than an arrest; its action resulted in a deprivation of liberty, and it is the legality of that deprivation which is being challenged.
This quasi police function of SFOR, whereby it virtually operates as an enforcement arm of the Tribunal, clearly impacts on the work of the Tribunal in the discharge of its fundamental purpose to prosecute persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law.
www.un.org /icty/simic/trialc3/decision-e/01018EVT13779.htm   (844 words)

  
 Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 97-08-28
The members of SFOR do not move in the streets of Brcko, because the citizens are preventing them in that, and only stronger conflict of the civilians and U.S. members of multi national forces currently is recorded on the border crossing with Croatia.
The commander of SFOR in Brcko captain Hendricks stated that there are no wounded between their soldiers, who closed the bridge on the Sava river and on the requirement of citizens lower down the arms.
In the announcement from the SFOR base in Tuzla is precisely stated that the actions of the multi-national forces "are undertaken because the possible confrontation" of the police forces of the president Biljana Plavsic and members of MUP of RS.
www.hri.org /news/agencies/srna/1997/97-08-28.srna.html   (1727 words)

  
 Peacekeepers Gone Astray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Ward said that SFOR will pay for the damage to the car and promised that the three American soldiers would be prosecuted at home, according to U.S. military laws.
Because SFOR kept him in locked up in their barracks for a month without allowing his family or his lawyer to see him, some international human rights organizations have accused SFOR of violating Fiuljanin's rights.
SFOR has refused to implement the decision made by the Human Rights Chamber in December to hand Fiuljanin over to Bosnian authorities for trial.
www.tol.cz /look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle=8488   (724 words)

  
 Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina - SFOR - Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
But what worried him more, as he rested in the sun, was seeing DCOM SFOR striding towards him down the safe-lane from the wood that marked the edge of the minefield.
As a result of SFOR restructuring a new type of unit was introduced within the framework of Multi National Task Forces.
SFOR seeking to help the population through aid and projects.
www.nato.int /sfor   (591 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / SFOR aircraft provocation
Loznica, April 19, 1999 (Tanjug - abridged) - Before the danger alarms were heard last night in the Loznica area, combat aircraft of the SFOR forces in Bosnia were flying to Drina, and returned suddenly flying along the border.
Such manoeuvres of the SFOR aircraft are obviously in the function of the NATO forces which have been bombing Yugoslavia for already 26 days spreading death of innocent civilians and making enormous damages.
These SFOR forces also render powerful military and logistic backup to the NATO aviation which sometimes tries to find a shelter landing at Tuzla or Sarajevo airports, often unsuccessfully.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-04/19/11074.html   (109 words)

  
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He said the mission of the Stabilization Force (SFOR) would be to "prevent a resumption of hostilities so that economic reconstruction and political reconciliation can accelerate." NATO ministers approved the SFOR plan on December 10, 1996, and the U.N. Security Council authorized the force on December 12, for an 18- month period.
In late 1997, the United States and other countries participating in SFOR found themselves in much the same dilemma that they faced in late 1996 either pull out and face the possibility of a resumption of fighting, or remain in Bosnia and continue a seemingly open-ended commitment.
Administration Policy on SFOR and an SFOR Follow-on Force (Prepared by Julie Kim and Steven Woehrel) Until November 1996, the Clinton Administration avoided making any firm pronouncements on possible successor missions to IFOR or possible U.S. participation in such a mission, emphasizing rather IFOR's scheduled completion and full withdrawal by the end of 1996.
countingcalifornia.cdlib.org /crs/ascii/97-475   (4006 words)

  
 Bosnia-Herzegovina: SFOR Still Searching For Wartime Serbian Leaders - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
SFOR also searched local medical facilities and the local church, apparently on another tip that Karadzic -- or possibly Mladic -- might have sought medical assistance for an injury.
SFOR spokesman Bower says the current operation differs from previous searches in that it is the first truly joint operation conducted with local police.
SFOR confirms that the searchers detained two people during the weekend operation in Pale, but has not revealed their names.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/1/46BC205D-B62D-400A-81F4-DD5C0131817E.html?napage=2   (906 words)

  
 DND/CF : Operations : Past Ops : Operation PALLADIUM
SFOR (as the NATO force became known in 1996) is part of a major international effort to help Bosnia-Herzegovina reshape itself as a democratic European nation.
The SFOR mission is to deter or respond to violence and, thus, provide the safe and secure environment necessary for the consolidation of peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the goal of promoting a climate in which the peace process can make progress without the presence of NATO forces.
The total Canadian contingent in SFOR is known as Task Force Bosnia-Herzegovina (TFBH), and its headquarters and support base are co-located at Camp Black Bear in Velika Kladusa, a town in north-western Bosnia-Herzegovina near the Croatian border.
www.forces.gc.ca /site/operations/Palladium/index_e.asp   (399 words)

  
 A Hunt or a Farce?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina--The media exploded in Sarajevo on 28 February with the news that the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) was arresting Europe's most-wanted war crimes suspect, Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs.
SFOR did discover three shelters with illegal weapons caches in two public buildings in Celebici.
The paper quoted Luka Karadzic as saying that he had no idea whether or not his brother was in Celebici at the time of the SFOR operation, but that he was sure that his brother would not surrender to SFOR alive.
www.tol.cz /look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle=3763   (862 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Then yesterday, an SFOR spokesman in the Bosnian Serb capital, Banja Luka, Lieutenant John Coppard, announced that on 28 May, some 50 SFOR soldiers had raided the headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Air Force at nearby Zaluzani airfield and seized computers and documents.
The SFOR spokesman said it is almost certain the surveillance equipment could not have been used to help former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to escape SFOR's attempts to arrest and transfer him to the United Nations' war-crimes tribunal at The Hague.
Dodik noted that SFOR recently discovered an illegal stash of weapons in Mostar in the Muslim-Croat federation and that the Bosnian Serb military might have been spying on the federation forces.
www.rferl.org /features/2002/05/30052002151440.asp   (786 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Sfor defends pursuit of Karadzic
Her report is due to examine the degree of co-operation with the Tribunal by the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Nato's general said he was "very proud" of what Sfor had accomplished and that the suspects' "support network" in Bosnia Serb areas had made arresting them "more difficult".
Sfor is due to hand over Bosnian peacekeeping to an EU-convened force, Eufor, on 2 December.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4036359.stm   (370 words)

  
 U.S. Kiowa Scout helicopter crashed in Bosnia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Two pilots on board suffered injuries: first pilot suffered minor injuries and was treated at SFOR base in Tuzla; second pilot sustained head and leg injuries and on 05-27-99 he was still being treated at the Tuzla SFOR base.
SFOR in conjunction with LP and IPTF are investigating.
IPTF, SFOR along with LP CID visited the scenes of attacks and the following was revealed there: 1) At the accommodation of AMIB in CELOPEK it was noticed that all the glass windows from the right side of the building were damaged and three holes were found each by a diameter 20 cm.
www.aeronautics.ru /nws001/kiowacrash.htm   (1671 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Infringement of SFOR authorization
President of Republika Srpska Nikola Poplasen sent an open letter to SFOR general Montgomery Miegs, referring to the murder of Dragan Gagovic.
I am particularly dissatisfied with the fact that there were five children in the car with late Gagovic, whose lives were exposed to danger.
Yet, in this case, SFOR made a heavy infringement, having endangered the lives of five children.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-01/12/8057.html   (220 words)

  
 UNITED NATIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
SFOR have rescinded the prohibition on its members from frequenting CD Alley.
SFOR can visit CD Alley from 08.00hrs to 18.00hrs each day with effect from 08.00 hrs today (27.05.99).
Message from IPTF MHQ LNO to SFOR: At 16.00hrs May 26th a French Patrol (6 soldiers) were taken hostage by approx 20 VJ (Yugoslavian Army) soldiers.
www.aeronautics.ru /nws001/log2705.html   (1226 words)

  
 The EC reconstruction programme for Bosnia and Herzegovina detailed by sector - SFOR Micro Projects
SFOR are technical specialists in many areas of engineering, have extensive knowledge of the area, and have a visible ground presence.
In 1996 SFOR targeted small projects that repaired transport routes, energy and water supplies, and rehabilitated social infrastructure such as schools and health centres to assist in the resettlement of displaced persons and refugees.
The SFOR Multinational Division South West (SFOR MNDSW) was contracted to cover the Banja Luka and western Republika Srpska region.
www.seerecon.org /bosnia/ec/sectors/microprojects.htm   (517 words)

  
 UN SFOR involved in Bosnian prostitution
The report said that an international civilian member of SFOR reportedly paid $3,200 in November 1999 to a bar owner in the eastern Serb-held town of Vlasenica for one woman from Romania and another from Moldova.
``As a member of SFOR, the man was immune from prosecution by local authorities.
``On the basis of his misconduct the man was relieved of his duties and a few days later was barred from the SFOR area of operations.
www.uri.edu /artsci/wms/hughes/ukraine/bosnia.htm   (504 words)

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