Original scientific paper
Janus and the Blue Helmet: the Oilfields of Western Syrmia and the Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations 1992-1998
Ivica Miškulin
Abstract
In this paper the author analyses occurrences connected with the oilfields of western Syrmia (with special emphasis on the oilfield in Đeletovci) based on archival material, the periodicals of the time and relevant literature in the context of the implementation of the three peacekeeping operations of the United Nations in Croatia (UNPROFOR, UNCRO and UNTAES). Bearing the decisive strategic importance of oilfields of western Syrmia in mind, the author has come to the conclusion that the peacekeeping forces, even within the limitations of traditional peacekeeping operations (UNPROFOR and UNCRO) failed to prevent oil theft by an active approach. By doing so they encouraged the Krajina Serbs in their policy of obstructing the peacekeeping operations. However, a more active role of the peacekeeping forces, albeit in altered circumstances, occurred at the beginning of the UNTAES operation, which was the moment when the later success of the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube River Basin was set out.
Keywords
Croatian war of independence; Western Syrmia; oil fields; Đeletovci (village); UNPROFOR; UNCRO; UNTAES
Hrčak ID:
198389
URI
Publication date:
31.10.2017.
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