§ Lord Wallace of Saltaireasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many states have contributed military forces to SFOR and IFOR in Bosnia; and what is the size of their contingents in these two multilateral forces. [HL49]
§ The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Gilbert)In total, 34 states contributed to the Implementation Force and 36 currently contribute to the Stabilisation Force. Precise figures for the military forces provided by each state are not held centrally by the MoD. Individual contributions can vary over the mission according to roulements and mission priorities. The figures below are assembled from a variety of sources and give troop numbers in the Former Yugoslavia as a whole rather than in Bosnia alone.
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IFOR SFOR United States 22,000 8,500 United Kingdom 11,500 5,200 France 7,800 113,500 Germany 2,600 2,200 Italy 2,500 1,790 Spain 1,750 1,550 Turkey 1,500 1,500 Russia 1,400 1,400 Netherlands 2,000 1,080 Denmark 1,000 1,000 Malaysia 1,500 925 Canada 1,000 900 Morocco 1,250 650 Czech Republic 850 640 Norway 600 615 Sweden 800 480 Poland 630 400 Ukraine 500 380 Finland 420 341 Egypt 700 270 Portugal 1,000 270 Hungary 430 255 Austria 250 230
IFOR SFOR Greece 250 210 Romania 200 200 Republic of Ireland 2— 60 Belgium 390 50 Estonia 30 40 Lithuania 30 40 Latvia 30 39 Albania 30 30 Bulgaria 3— 30 Luxembourg 20 18 Jordan 50 10 Iceland 3— 34 Slovenia 2— 4— Notes: 1Includes dedicated reserve force based in France. 2Did not contribute to IFOR. 3Figures not available. 4Slovenia provides an emergency medical facility based in their capital Ljubljana. 5Civilian medical staff.
§ Lord Wallace of Saltaireasked Her Majesty's Government:
How the costs of SFOR and IFOR have been divided among the contributing states. [HL50]
§ Lord GilbertNations contributing to IFOR/SFOR largely meet their own costs. However, NATO common funding is provided for some costs, such as a proportion of the IFOR and SFOR Headquarters costs and some infrastructure costs where, for instance, repairs to road links are considered essential to the completion of the military task.
§ Lord Wallace of Saltaireasked Her Majesty's Government:
Which state has made the largest financial contributions to peacekeeping and peacemaking operations in the former Yugoslavia over the past seven years; and how this compares with the total British contribution. [HL51]
§ Lord GilbertNations providing forces to IFOR/SFOR largely meet their own costs, and are not required to provide details to any central body. It is not therefore possible to provide comparative figures. The costs of the United Kingdom's contribution to the Former Yugoslavia since 1992 were given on 16 December in my Answer to the noble Lord, Lord Renton of Mount Harry, at col. 494 of theOfficial Report.