For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 21, 2002
Fact Sheet: Czech Republic: Military Deployments Abroad
NATO Summit Trip
The Czech Republic has participated in peacekeeping operations in
Southeast Europe since the beginning of the nineties as a contributing
state to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Croatia.
Since 1995, it has contributed forces to NATO deployments in Bosnia.
The Czech Republic currently maintains a joint Czech-Slovak mechanized
battalion in Kosovo and a staff of 15 officers in Bosnia.
On September 11, after NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic
Treaty, the Czech Republic provided air transport to support AWACS
operations in Europe as U.S. AWACS were called to support coalition
forces in Afghanistan. The Czech Republic later sent 200 personnel to
operate a military field hospital in Afghanistan. It deployed a
nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological defense and
decontamination unit (200 troops) to Kuwait in support of Operation
Enduring Freedom. In early 2003, the Czech Republic plans to send 120
special operations forces to Afghanistan.
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