A few days ago, the command of the Austrian contingent of the EUFOR/ALTHEA foreign mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina was handed over. At a small ceremony, Colonel of the General Staff Service, Florian Goiser, was given command.
New commander
In the presence of Major General Helmut Habermayer, commander of the EUFOR force, and Austrian Ambassador Ulrike Hartmann, Major General Gerhard Christiner handed over command of the Austrian EUFOR soldiers from Colonel of the General Staff Robert Beneder to Colonel of the General Staff Florian Goiser.
The mission
Since December 2004, Austrian soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been under the command of the European Union’s EUFOR/ALTHEA. Together with their comrades from many other nations – but above all from the EU – they support compliance with the Dayton Agreement. The basis for the deployment of the international peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently governed by the Dayton Agreement and UN Resolution 2384. As the peaceful development of Bosnia and Herzegovina is of particular importance to Austria alongside Kosovo, the Austrian Armed Forces have been involved in the mission since 1996. https://militaeraktuell.at/frequentis-kooperiert-mit-us-verteidigungsministerium/ Since December 1995, the mission has been under NATO command and was called IFOR (“Implementation Force”), and from December 1996 SFOR (“Stabilization Force”). At the end of 2004, the EU took over the mission, which has been operating under the name EUFOR/ALTHEA ever since.
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