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EURoPEAN UNIoN AMM

(Aceh Monitoring Mission)

The European Union, together with contributing countries from Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei,
Philippines and Singapore), as well as with Norway and Switzerland, deployed a monitoring
mission in Aceh (Indonesia): Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM). This mission was designed to
monitor the implementation of various aspects of the peace agreement set out in the Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement
(GAM) on 15 August 2005. The AMM became operational on 15 September 2005, the date on
which the decommissioning of GAM armaments and the relocation of non-organic military and
police forces began. The AMM was successfully concluded on 15 December 2006 following local
elections in Aceh held on 11 December 2006.

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