European Union Monitoring Mission
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The European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) (previously ECMM, European Community Monitor Mission) is a program initiated by the European Union in July 1991 to monitor borders, inter-ethnic relations, refugee traffic, and political and security developments in the former-Yugoslavia area of the western Balkans. The EUMM program operates under the CFSP (Common Foreign and Security Policy) of the EU. The ECMM and was renamed the European Union Monitoring Mission on 22 December 2000.[1] In 2008 Georgia was added to the EUMM program.
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[edit] EUMM in the former-Yugoslavia
The EUMM began operating in July 1991 under the name of ECMM (European Community Monitor Mission). The mission was financed by the European Commission and consisted of 75 field specialists. The mission was headquartered in Zagreb and its area designated included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia.
In January 1992, the mission was briefly suspended following the helicopter downing that killed five of its observers.[2]
[edit] EUMM in Georgia
Following the 2008 South Ossetia war in August 2008, the EU declared on the 15th of September 2008 to deploy a monitoring mission to Georgia. The main objectives of the mission is to fulfill the European commitment in re-establishing stability and normalisation following the crisis through an observer mission that consists of over 200 field specialists that conduct routine inspections within the stipulated zone of the mission that includes Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The mission is to observes the compliance of human rights and the fulfillment of the six-point-program established under the French brokered peace agreement between Georgia and Russia on 12 August 2008.
[edit] See also
- ESDP missions
- Wolfgang Tiede and Jakob Schirmer: "Die rechtlichen Grundlagen der Überwachungsmission der Europäischen Union in Georgien (EUMM)" ("The legal basis of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM)" in Osteuropa-Recht (OER)) 2008 (German Law Journal), (December 2009) vol. 4, pp. 403-413.
[edit] References
- ^ European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina - European Union Monitoring Mission. Retrieved 20 October 2006.
- ^ "EC suspends peace monitoring/Observers killed in helicopter shot down over Yugoslavia". Houston Chronicle. Associated Press: p. 16. 1992-01-08. http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1992_1029430/ec-suspends-peace-monitoring-observers-killed-in-h.html. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
