UN Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP) was established on 15 January 1996 in Security Council Resolution 1038 as a peacekeeping mission to monitor the

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of the disputed

Prevlaka Prevlaka () is a small peninsula in southern Croatia, near the border with Montenegro, at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor on the eastern Adriatic coast. Because of its strategic location in the southern Adriatic, in the aftermath of the SFR Y ...

peninsula by carrying out daily foot and vehicle patrols on both sides of the border between Croatia and

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(specifically, its federal unit

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). Countries providing support for this mission included Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland and Ukraine. It was disbanded on 15 December 2002, the date set by the UN Security Council.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20031219085017/http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unmop/ United Nations operations in the former Yugoslavia

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Croatia and the United Nations Serbia and Montenegro and the United Nations Croatia–Montenegro border Croatia–Serbia relations History of Dalmatia 1996 establishments in Croatia 1996 establishments in Montenegro 2002 disestablishments in Croatia 2002 disestablishments in Montenegro {{UN-stub