BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: King Juan Carlos I of Spain opens a reconstructed square in Mostar dedicated to fallen Spanish troops who served in the UN mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Record ID: 860161

  • Title: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: King Juan Carlos I of Spain opens a reconstructed square in Mostar dedicated to fallen Spanish troops who served in the UN mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Date: 30th March 2012
  • Summary: MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (MARCH 29, 2012) (REUTERS) OTTOMAN ERA BRIDGE OVER NERETVA RIVER IN MOSTAR SECURITY AT SPANISH SQUARE SPANISH FLAG AND PEOPLE AT SQUARE BAKIR IZETBEGOVIC, MEMBER OF BOSNIA'S TRIPARTITE PRESIDENCY WAITING FOR KING PEOPLE IN STREET KING JUAN CARLOS OF SPAIN ARRIVING KING JUAN CARLOS OF SPAIN TALKING TO IZETBEGOVIC KING JUAN CARLOS OF SPAIN WAVING TO PEOPLE
  • Embargoed: 14th April 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Topics: International Relations,Royalty,Royalty
  • Reuters ID: LVA3GHD5DZWU53EEW3SU0SGCI9DX
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  • Story Text: King Juan Carlos I of Spain attended a ceremony in Mostar on Thursday (March 29) to dedicate a square to Spanish peacekeepers who were killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past two decades.
    King Juan Carlos was received by Bakir Izetbegovic, a member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency and Ljubo Beslic, the mayor of Mostar.
    Together, they inaugurated the Square of Spain in the still ethnically divided town.
    The downtown square's reconstruction was jointly funded by the United Nations and the Spanish government.
    King Juan Carlos and Bakir Izetbegovic laid a wreath at the monument erected in the memory of 23 Spanish soldiers killed in peacekeeping missions in Bosnia since 1992.
    The King of Spain also visited the Old Bridge, a jewel of Ottoman architecture which was destroyed during the war and rebuilt in 2004.
    Juan Carlos had visited Bosnia on January 5, 1998 to celebrate his 60th birthday with Spanish troops.
    UN and NATO peacekeeping missions had been deployed during and after the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia which claimed some 100,000 lives and two million displaced people.
    Some 1,250 peacekeepers of the European Forces (EUFOR) are still deployed in the country.
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