He relayed the same command to the Dutch Peacekeeping commander (as documented in ICTY testimony) but apparently there was either a lack of will and/or means.
In the few weeks since he took command, peacekeeping troops have raided a Serbian bar that has frequently been identified as a hangout for troublemakers and paramilitaries.
Mr. Spanta said the Afghan government preferred another British candidate for the job, Gen. John McColl, who is NATO's deputy commander in Europe and who commanded peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan in 2002.
Spain announced that Morocco had agreed to send troops to Haiti on a peacekeeping mission under Spanish command.
See articleNATO assumed full command of peacekeeping in Afghanistan, taking charge of 10,000 American troops in the east of the country.
There is friction between the UN and some governments over who has ultimate command over peacekeeping troops, which has resulted in conflicting orders with disastrous consequences.
Britain now commands the peacekeeping force of nearly 5,000 in Kabul.
He was commander of a heavy brigade at the moment the Soviet Union collapsed; less than a decade later, he was commanding a peacekeeping force in the chaos of Bosnia.
General Jetley, who has commanded the peacekeeping force since it was sent to Sierra Leone, is popular with civilian United Nations officials there, and his Indian troops when fully deployed will make up a third of the total force.
The 50,000-member peacekeeping force, which is commanded by NATO, entered Kosovo in June 1999 after 78 days of NATO bombing prompted the Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, to withdraw his security forces from Kosovo, enabling hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians who had fled to return home.
