Those changes, specifically the decreased danger of the country returning to all-out war, were the reasoning behind the North Atlantic Council's decision earlier this month to reduce SFOR from its present 18,000 troops to 12,000 troops by mid-2003.
Te promene, a naročito smanjenje opasnosti da zemlja ponovo sklizne u sveopsti rat, predstavljaju rezon kojim se rukovodio Severoatlantski savet kada je ranije u toku meseca odlučio da smanji broj vojnika SFOR-a sa 18 na 12 hiljada do sredine 2003 godine.