The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav wars. It existed between the beginning of UN involvement in February 1992, and its restructuring into other forces (United Nations Preventive Deployment Force - UNPREDEP and United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation - UNCRO) in March 1995. In French, its name was FORPRONU (Force de Protection des Nations Unies).
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