SARAJEVO'S ENERGOINVEST REJECTS BLAME FOR CHERNOBYL

SARAJEVO, April 24 (Hina) - Equipment for nuclear power plants which Energoinvest had been delivering to the former Soviet Union was of high quality and the Chernobyl disaster was caused by unskilled personnel, said former and current leaders of the Sarajevo-based company which the KGB report from the 1980s named as one of the responsible parties for the damage to the nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl power plant. #L# Incumbent Energoinvest director Djemail Vlahovljak confirmed that his company, along with Croatia's Djuro Djakovic and Jugoturbina and Serbia's Prva Iskra, was one of the main equipment suppliers of the Soviet nuclear power plant. Former Energoinvest director Dragutin Kosovac said immediately after the Chernobyl disaster 17 years ago that Energoinvest equipment was ruled out as a possible factor which caused the disaster. Energoinvest officials took the accusations against this company really hard because the company is preparing to participate, along with other companies from Bosnia, in reconstruction projects in Iraq. (hina) it sb