WASHINGTON

The UN Security Council on Friday renewed the EU-led stabilization force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR-Althea) for an additional year.

The 15-member council unanimously adopted Resolution 2795 and authorized the members states acting through or in cooperation with the EU to establish, for another 12 months, a multinational stabilization force, or EUFOR-Althea.

Greece, which penned the draft resolution, welcomes unanimous renewal of the EUFOR-Althea mandate, Aglaia Balta, the country's permanent representative to the UN, told the Council.

"Since its establishment in 2004, EUFOR-Althea has played an indispensable role in safeguarding security and stability in Bosnia Herzegovina," Balta said.

EUFOR-Althea is mandated to help implement the military aspects of the 1995 General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, which put an end to the 1992-1995 Bosnian War.

In 2004, nine years after the war ended, the EU launched the military Operation Althea in the Western Balkan country. This followed the decision by NATO to hand over its own peacekeeping mission that had maintained security in the region since the war ended.