Cikotic was quoted by the Sarajevo-based Dnevni Avaz on Sunday as saying that the offer was made at a recent conference of coalition forces.
Earlier this week, the international conference was held at Tampa, Florida where the U.S. Central Command is located. U.S. President George Bush, who addressed the CENTCOM conference that gathered officials from 51 countries, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, said that providing Iraq with assistance must continue as the local authorities were still not capable of taking over the responsibility for the situation in that country.
Cikotic told the daily that the CENTCOM proposed that Bosnia increase its contingent by 50 percent.
He added that at the conference he could not give any answer as there was law-regulated procedure for such decision-making in his country.
Since last year Bosnia's unit has been deployed around the Iraqi city of Ai Diwani under the protection of the U.S. army. The contingent consists of 36 mine removal specialists who are replaced every six months.
There have been no casualties among the Bosnians although they are in a volatile sector.