The Dutch contribution to European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia
On 11 September 2008, Georgia asked the EU to deploy a monitoring mission to Georgia. At that point, preparations for the mission had already begun. A week earlier, on 2 September, quartermasters had already started work in Georgia.
The next day the Council of the European Union reached an agreement on a civilian monitoring mission as part of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The EU member states provided a total of more than 200 observers for the EUMM.
The Dutch government decided on 19 September that it would make a contribution. Until a regular contribution could be sent, the Netherlands sent 9 personnel – 7 civilians and 2 Marechaussee personnel – with armoured vehicles and further equipment to Georgia. The regular team, which consisted entirely of civilians, left for Georgia in early 2009, thus ending the contribution of the Ministry of Defence to this mission.