Germany's armed forces are to continue their deployments in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of international missions, lawmakers agreed on Thursday.
The Bundestag, as Germany's parliament is known, extended the mandate for the EU mission Eufor Althea and for the NATO mission KFOR by a large majority.
Up to 50 German soldiers are to ensure compliance with the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the Bosnian war in 1995. The Balkan state is still considered a potential centre of conflict, however.
The NATO mission KFOR in Kosovo will continue to have up to 400 German soldiers who are there to protect peace and public order in Kosovo, which has seen renewed tensions with Serbia recently.
Later, the Bundestag is to extend a further Bundeswehr mission abroad, in Lebanon.
Lawmakers are set to agree to keep up to 300 soldiers as part of UN mission UNIFIL, to prevent the smuggling of weapons into Lebanon.
