Mission
UNCRO was established on March 31, 1995 in Security Council Resolution 981 and was deployed to the newly created Croatia. Additional forces were also deployed to Serbian-controlled Western Slavonia, the Krajina region and Eastern Slavonia. Observers were additionally stationed in the Prevlaka peninsula.
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“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
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