The Dutch contribution to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The OSCE appointed former minister and mayor of Amsterdam drs. E. van Thijn as Coordinator for International Monitoring (CIM).

With the support of a small staff and a civil observer group of 900 people, his task was to evaluate, independently of the OSCE mission, whether the elections had proceeded in accordance with the set criteria. The CIM had completed his task after the elections; the OSCE mission is still active in Bosnia and Herzegovina today.

Dutch contribution

On April 22 1996, the Ministry of Defence made Captain A.F. Vermeulen available for the OSCE mission to supplement the arms control team. Major H. Evertse followed on 19 May as the CIM’s liaison officer in the staffs of the Implementation Force (IFOR) and Allied Rapid Reactions Corps (ARRC). He was joined in mid-August by Colonel R.M. Eiting, who took on the post of CIM chief of staff. Vermeulen was the last to return home.