SARAJEVO, Jan 16 (Hina) - The deputy defence minister of Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation, Ferid Buljubasic, visited Belgrade recently without the knowledge of other federal officials, the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje said on
Wednesday. Not even the federation's Defence Minister Mijo Anic, President Safet Halilovic, or Prime Minister Alija Behmen knew about the trip, the daily says. "On whose order Buljubasic stayed there, what he was doing and on whose behalf, only he and nobody else knows," said Halilovic. The Sarajevo media speculated the secret visit might be connected to a scandal involving the smuggling of weapons from Bosnia to Kosovo and Macedonia which allegedly implicates some senior Muslim officers of the federal army. Defence Minister Anic declined to directly comment on such allegations but announced new arrests in connection with weapon trafficking. Buljubasic himself refused to say what
SARAJEVO, Jan 16 (Hina) - The deputy defence minister of Bosnia's
Croat-Muslim federation, Ferid Buljubasic, visited Belgrade
recently without the knowledge of other federal officials, the
Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje said on Wednesday.
Not even the federation's Defence Minister Mijo Anic, President
Safet Halilovic, or Prime Minister Alija Behmen knew about the
trip, the daily says.
"On whose order Buljubasic stayed there, what he was doing and on
whose behalf, only he and nobody else knows," said Halilovic.
The Sarajevo media speculated the secret visit might be connected
to a scandal involving the smuggling of weapons from Bosnia to
Kosovo and Macedonia which allegedly implicates some senior Muslim
officers of the federal army.
Defence Minister Anic declined to directly comment on such
allegations but announced new arrests in connection with weapon
trafficking.
Buljubasic himself refused to say what he was doing in Belgrade. His
only statement in this regard was that "those who needed to know"
were informed about the trip.
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