SARAJEVO
Bosnia and Herzegovina has agreed to send security force members to South Sudan to help protecting civilians there from the violence after the United Nation's (UN) call for immediate assistance.
"The Ministry of Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina offered an additional 28 police officers from different police agencies who are trained and ready to participate in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission," said a statement released by the ministry on Thursday.
Bosnia currently has 35 police officers serving in South Sudan. The ministry will send six more officers on Saturday, while the other 22 will remain on hold.
If the UN accepts additional police officers, Bosnia's contingent in South Sudan will be the largest police mission of peacekeepers in the country, said the statement adding, "Bosnia and Herzegovina is ready to meet its international obligations and help people in South Sudan."
South Sudan has been shaken by violence since mid-December, when President Salva Kiir accused sacked vice president Riek Machar of standing behind a failed coup attempt.
