The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is the officially mandated mission of the United Nations in Kosovo. The UNMIK describes its mandate as being to "help the United Nations Security Council achieve an overall objective,namely,to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants of Kosovo and advance regional stability in the Western Balkans."
Jens Stoltenberg is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th Secretary General of NATO since 2014. A member of the Norwegian Labour Party,he previously served as the 34th Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001,and again from 2005 until 2013.
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts,wars of independence,and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia,which began in mid-1991,into six independent countries matching the six entities known as republics which previously comprised Yugoslavia:Slovenia,Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Montenegro,Serbia,and North Macedonia. Yugoslavia's constituent republics declared independence due to unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries,which fuelled the wars. While most of the conflicts ended through peace accords that involved full international recognition of new states,they resulted in a massive number of deaths as well as severe economic damage to the region.
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992,following a number of earlier violent incidents. The war ended on 14 December 1995 when the Dayton accords were signed. The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina with those of the Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and Republika Srpska,proto-states led and supplied by Croatia and Constituent Republic of Serbia,respectively.
The United Nations Protection Force was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars. The force was formed in February 1992 and its mandate ended in March 1995,with the peacekeeping mission restructuring into three other forces.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is a UN Special Political Mission tasked with assisting the people of Afghanistan.
Dr. Marianne Heiberg was director of the UN organization for aid to Palestinian refugees UNRWA field office in Jerusalem.
The United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia,commonly abbreviated UNCRO,was a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in Croatia. It was established under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter and approved by the UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 981 on 31 March 1995. UNCRO inherited personnel and infrastructure from the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). Its command was located in Zagreb;the peacekeeping troops were deployed in four sectors named North,South,East,and West. Twenty different countries contributed troops to the mission.
Four major international peace plans were proposed before and during the Bosnian War by European Community (EC) and United Nations (UN) diplomats before the conflict was settled by the Dayton Agreement in 1995.
The Z-4 Plan was a proposed basis for negotiations to end the Croatian War of Independence with a political settlement. It was drafted by Peter W. Galbraith,Leonid Kerestedjiants and Geert-Hinrich Ahrens on behalf of a mini-Contact Group comprising United Nations envoys and diplomats from the United States,Russia and the European Union. The co-chairs of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia,David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg,were closely involved in the political process surrounding the plan. The document was prepared in the final months of 1994 and early 1995 before being presented to Croatian President Franjo Tuđman and the leaders of the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) on 30 January 1995. Tuđman was displeased with the proposal,but accepted it as a basis for further negotiations. However,the RSK authorities even refused to receive the document before UNPROFOR mandate status was resolved. According to later reactions,RSK leadership was not satisfied with the plan.
Raymond Johansen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party who has been Governing Mayor of Oslo since 2015. A former member of the Socialist Left Party,Johansen previously served as the Oslo city commissioner for transport and environment from 1992 to 1995,when his party withdrew from the city cabinet. After joining Labour,he served as the party secretary from 2009 to 2015.
Nini Stoltenberg was a Norwegian television personality and sister of Jens Stoltenberg,former prime minister of Norway,and Camilla Stoltenberg,the director-general of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She was,however,better known as a drug addict,and has been cited as such by Norwegian media on numerous occasions. She has often been depicted as an unofficial spokesperson for Norwegian drug users. Stoltenberg was part of a 12-member group of expert advisers on drug policies for the second cabinet Bondevik (2001–2005).
Norwegian–Serbian relations are foreign relations between Norway and Serbia. Norway has an embassy in Belgrade. Serbia has an embassy in Oslo. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Croatia–Norway relations are foreign relations between Croatia and Norway. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 20 February 1992. Croatia has an embassy in Oslo. Norway has an embassy in Zagreb and an honorary consulate in Rijeka.
Wegger Christian Strømmen is a Norwegian diplomat and politician who is the current Norwegian Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was Norwegian Ambassador to the United States in 2007–2013.
Camilla Stoltenberg is a Norwegian physician and researcher. Since 13 August 2012,she has been Director-General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She is the sister of former Prime Minister of Norway and General Secretary of NATO,Jens Stoltenberg.
On 12 April 1993,the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) launched an artillery attack against the town of Srebrenica,in eastern Bosnia,which left 56 dead and 73 seriously wounded,among whom were 14 children dead in a school playground. The attack came following the suspension of cease-fire talks,hours before NATO would implement a no-fly zone according to an UN resolution. VRS officials had previously told UNHCR representatives that the VRS would shell the town within two days unless it surrendered.
United Nations Security Council resolution 859,adopted unanimously on 24 August 1993,after recalling all resolutions on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina,the council noted that,despite all previous security council resolutions since Resolution 713 (1991),the region was still a scene of hostilities and there was little compliance with previous resolutions,particularly by the Bosnian Serb party.
Eirik Øwre Thorshaug is Vice President,Head Public and Regulatory Affairs for Telenor Group in Europe,and is a former Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Lieutenant General Lars-Eric Malcom Wahlgren was a Swedish Army officer. Wahlgren served as commanding officer of Gotland Military Command,as Chief of Home Guard and as Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)
