Peacekeeping Operations Center
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| Peacekeeping Operations Center | |
|---|---|
| Центар за мировне операције | |
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| Active | 2005–present |
| Country |  Serbia |
| Branch |  Serbian General Staff |
| Type | Peacekeeping operations |
| Part of |  Serbian Armed Forces |
| Garrison/HQ | Belgrade |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Colonel Milivoje Pajović |
Peacekeeping Operations Center (Serbian: Центар за мировне операције, romanized: Centar za mirovne operacije) is a unit of the Joint Operations Command within the Serbian General Staff. 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 Serbia.
Following the end of the Yugoslav Wars, the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro joined multinational peace 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. 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 Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2003, this section became the National Center for Peacekeeping Missions, subordinated to the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces 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.[1] The Peacekeeping Operations Center celebrates its day on November 17 in memory of the day when, in 1956, the precursor of the JNA Detachment was sent to the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) in Sinai.