United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka
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UN Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP) was established on 15 January 1996 in Security Council Resolution 1038
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1038
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1038, adopted unanimously on January 15, 1996, after recalling previous resolutions on Croatia including resolutions 779 , 981 and 1025 , the Council authorised the United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka to continue monitoring the...

 as a peacekeeping mission to monitor the demilitarization of the disputed Prevlaka
Prevlaka
Prevlaka is a small peninsula in southern Croatia, at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor in the eastern Adriatic. The word prevlaka means portage. The cape Oštro, located at the tip of the peninsula, is the southernmost point of mainland in Croatia....

 peninsula by carrying out daily foot and vehicle patrols on both sides of the border between Croatia
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 and Montenegro
Montenegro
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 (then part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).

Countries providing support for this mission included Finland
Finland
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, Argentina
Argentina
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, Indonesia
Indonesia
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, Denmark
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, Portugal
Portugal
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, Sweden
Sweden
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, Norway
Norway
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, Ireland
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 and the USA
United States
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.

It was disbanded on 15 December 2002, the date set by the UN Security Council.

External links

  • http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unmop/
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