- Title: ITALY / GERMANY: PEACEKEEPING TROOPS LEAVE FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
- Date: 4th December 1995
- Summary: NAPLES, ITALY AND COLOGNE AND MANNHEIM, GERMANY (DECEMBER 4-5, 1995)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) NAPLES, ITALY (DECEMBER 5, 1995) 1. LV BAGNOLI NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NATO) BASE 0.05 2. SLV TRUCKS LINED UP 0.10 3. SLV TRUCK DRIVERS BEING BRIEFED 0.15 4. SV SENIOR AIRMAN JOHN BERRY FROM DOVER, DELAWARE ASKED ABOUT
- Embargoed: 19th December 1995 12:00
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- Location: NAPLES, ITALY AND COLOGNE AND MANNHEIM, GERMANY
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- Country: EUROPE Italy Germany
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- Story Text: Elements of the 60,000-strong North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-led peace force to be deployed to in former-Yugoslavia left for the Balkans on Tuesday (December 5).
In Italy, United States (U.S.) troops moved out from the NATO base in Bagnoli to begin peacekeeping duties in Croatia.
The 13-vehicle convoy carrying telcommunications equipment and part of NATO's southern region command is headed for the Croat capital Zagreb.
The full NATO force will consist of some 2,600 communications technicians, logisticians and other support personnel. The enabling forces will prepare for the arrival of the peace implementation force (IFOR). IFOR will deploy following the signature of a peace accord.
In Germany, Defence Minister Volker Ruehe despatched 158 medical specialists by plane to the Croatian city of Split, where they will replace colleagues who have been working at a Franco-German field hospital for the past four months.
The field hospital was part of a German deployment agreed in June to support United Nations (U.N.) peacekeepers in Bosnia. It also included Tornado fighter-bombers based in Italy who have flown dozens of sorties in Germany's first combat mission since World War Two.
The farewell ceremony took place at the military part of Cologne airport.
On Monday, U.S. Army Signals units based in Germany were preparing to send train-loads of support equipment for the U.S.
NATO forces in Bosnia.
One of the first American army battalions heading for the troubled region from Mannheim intends to set up an electronic mail network so that its soldiers can stay in touch with home.
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