Peacekeeping Operations Center


Peacekeeping Operations Center is a unit of the Joint Operations Command within the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces. It is the major authority for training, selection, equipping, preparation and deployment of individuals and units from the Ministry of Defense and Serbian Armed Forces to multinational operations outside the borders of the Republic of Serbia.

History

Following the end of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Army and the Army of Serbia and Montenegro joined multinational operations in 2002. They participated in UNMISET in East Timor and ONUB in Burundi. In these multinational operations, the officers were individually deployed as military observers.
Deploying individual officers requires the existence of an organizational unit to coordinate activities in selecting staff, logistics, preparing for specific duties and resolving their status.
Since 2002 peacekeeping missions in the military were coordinated by the Section for International Integration and Peace Operations from the Operational Department of the General Staff of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro. On October 14, 2003, this section became the National Center for Peacekeeping Missions, subordinated to the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro.
The Peacekeeping Operations Center, as the legal successor of the National Center for Peacekeeping Missions, was established on January 1, 2005. Thereafter, it was subordinated to the Joint Operations Command of the General Staff. The Peacekeeping Operations Center celebrates its Day on November 17 in memory of the day when, in 1956, the precursor of the YPA Detachment was sent to the UN Emergency Force in Sinai.

Tasks

The center has various duties including:
The center's organizational structure consists of four other departments and one group: