New NATO Force in Bosnia
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — NATO commanders formally launched a new multinational mission in Bosnia on Friday with a plea to the country’s political leaders to “take risks for peace as our soldiers have.”
Gen. George A. Joulwan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s supreme commander, presided over a military ceremony handing authority to the 35,000-strong Stabilization Force, or SFOR. The new force succeeds the much bigger, NATO-led Implementation Force, or IFOR.
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