European Union Force

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EUFOR or European Union Force is a term used to describe European Union military deployments, and has been used three times so far, in Bosnia from 2004 as EUFOR Althea, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2006, and in Chad and the Central Africa Republic since 2007. EUFOR is a temporary military deployment, not a permanent military force, and should not be confused with the Eurocorps or the Helsinki Headline Goal Force Catalogue, sometime misleadingly known as the 'European Rapid Reaction Force'. The name probably was patterned in imitation of NATO's IFOR, SFOR, and KFOR.

1 EUFOR Althea
2 EUFOR Chad/CAR
3 EUFOR DR Congo
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] EUFOR Althea

Main article: EUFOR Althea

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EUFOR in the Balkans

EUFOR Althea was a military deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina to oversee the military implementation of the Dayton Agreement. It is the successor to SFOR and IFOR. The transition from SFOR to EUFOR was largely a change of name and commanders: 80% of the troops remained in place.^[1] It replaced the NATO-led SFOR on December 2, 2004.

[edit] EUFOR Chad/CAR

Main article: EUFOR Chad/CAR

EUFOR also refers to the EU mission under the auspices and in the framework of MINURCAT in Chad and the Central African Republic, from late 2007 onwards.^[2]

[edit] EUFOR DR Congo

Main article: EUFOR DR Congo

The acronym EUFOR was also used for a short deployment in 2006 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On 25 April 2006, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1671 (2006), authorising the temporary deployment of an EU force to support the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) during the period encompassing the elections in the DR Congo, which began on 30 July.