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Bosnia and Herzegovina - International Forces and Organizations

IFOR
SFOR
OSCE Mission
Icelandic Force

See also:

IFOR - Implementation Forces

by Jens Pattke, 27 March 2004

UN International Forces in Bosnia, that are there deployed according to the Dayton agreement (called Implememntation Foces, with the task to implement the agreement), use an emblem consisting of a shield per pale white with letters IFOR vertiaclly, and blue with white letters IFOR in cyrillc. It seems that both dark blue (as in NATO flag), and light blue (as in UN flag) was used. Possibly it have been used as a flag, but I have never seen it so. The flags used by IFOR are just the UN flag and the flags of their respective countries.
Zeljko Heimer, 4 July 1996

Latter in 1996 the flag with this emblem was reported, together with two emblems of NATO organization on it.
Zeljko Heimer, 8 November 1996

SFOR - Stabilization Forces

by Jens Pattke, 27 March 2004

Since 1 January 1997 the mandate of IFOR finished, and the forces were renamed according to their new task - Stabilization Forces. Their flag is much more used, changing only the initials in it.
Zeljko Heimer

"OSCE - Organization of European Security and Cooperation" Mission

by Zeljko Heimer, 24 April 2000

Browsing the Net I noticed the flag of the OSCE Mission to B&H on their site. Is it a simple logo on bedsheet, but still, it is obvious from the photos there that it is in use as flag (See: <www.oscebih.org>).
The logo is consisting of the OSCE logo - four blue squares cointaining lowercase initials of the organization in white, combined with two light blue triangles, no doubt representing Bosnia and Hezegovina, above the logo is written "Mission to" and below "Bosnia and Herzegovina" in two rows. Most probably ratio is 2:3, though I guess it is nowhere defined. The logo must be younger then the current B&H flag (on which it is based), even if the Mission