MOSTAR, July 21 (Hina) - Members of Bosnia-Herzegovina's state border service withdrew by 50 metres near the Kostajnica border crossing, after being forced by the UN mission in Bosnia to do so, the Bosnian border service director
Slavisa Vukovic said on Sunday.
MOSTAR, July 21 (Hina) - Members of Bosnia-Herzegovina's state
border service withdrew by 50 metres near the Kostajnica border
crossing, after being forced by the UN mission in Bosnia to do so,
the Bosnian border service director Slavisa Vukovic said on Sunday.
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Bosnian border guards withdrew in the area between the Una and
Uncica rivers, near the Croatian-Bosnian frontier.
"I regard that International Police Task Force (IPTF) members
threatened our border guard team, after which the state border
service members were forced to withdraw by 50 metres," Vukovic was
quoted by the Bosnian Serb entity's news agency (SRNA) as saying.
According to Saturday's issue of the BanjaLuka-based daily
"Nezavisne Novine", Croatia sent an ultimatum to Sarajevo to pull
its police and state border service troops from the area between the
two rivers.
According to Vukovic, he, together with his two deputies and the
state border service's superintendent on Saturday evening refuted
to carry put an order of the UN mission and IPTF on the withdrawal.
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