European Union Force The European Union (EU) has undertaken a number of overseas missions and operations, drawing on civilian and military capabilities, in several countries across three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia), as part of its Common Security and Def ...

RD Congo, commonly referred as EUFOR RD Congo, was a

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...

deployment in 2006 in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

. On 25 April 2006, the

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adopted Resolution 1671 (2006), authorising the temporary deployment of a

force to support the

United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or MONUSCO, an acronym based on its French name , is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which was est ...

(MONUC) during the period encompassing the general elections in the DR Congo, which began on 30 July 2006. The European Council approved the launching of the EU military operation and appointed Lieutenant General Karlheinz Viereck (Germany) Operation Commander and Major General Christian Damay (France) EU Force Commander. The Operational Headquarters was the German-nominated Armed Forces Operational Command - Einsatzführungskommando - ( :de:Einsatzführungskommando der Bundeswehr) at

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, Germany. The mission was tasked with: * supporting and providing security to MONUC installations and personnel; * contributing to airport protection in

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of ...

; * contributing to the protection of civilians under imminent threat of physical violence; * evacuation operations in case of emergency. The mission came to an end on 30 November 2006.EUFOR RD Congo
,

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, accessed 13 January 2007

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eufor Rd Congo Military ground operations of the European Union International law enforcement organizations Military history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2006 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

See also

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