MOSTAR, April 17 (Hina) - The NATO-led SFOR troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday started pulling the arms and ammunition from the Croat component's small military barracks in Herzegovina into a large army barracks south of Mostar,
SFOR reported today. The SFOR command asserted that the transfer was conducted as a precautionary measure to counter a possible rebellion of Bosnia Croats. SFOR is transferring weapons from a dozen barracks in Herzegovina to the main camp south of Mostar, a spokesman for SFOR South East Division said on Tuesday. The spokesman Joerg Lehmann said the operation would be conducted in coming days. He described it as precaution, adding that the situation in Herzegovina was not tense. The spokesman could not confirm the media reports whether SFOR and the international community's representatives were preparing similar actions in other financial and economic institutions in Herze
MOSTAR, April 17 (Hina) - The NATO-led SFOR troops in Bosnia-
Herzegovina on Monday started pulling the arms and ammunition from
the Croat component's small military barracks in Herzegovina into a
large army barracks south of Mostar, SFOR reported today.
The SFOR command asserted that the transfer was conducted as a
precautionary measure to counter a possible rebellion of Bosnia
Croats.
SFOR is transferring weapons from a dozen barracks in Herzegovina
to the main camp south of Mostar, a spokesman for SFOR South East
Division said on Tuesday. The spokesman Joerg Lehmann said the
operation would be conducted in coming days.
He described it as precaution, adding that the situation in
Herzegovina was not tense.
The spokesman could not confirm the media reports whether SFOR and
the international community's representatives were preparing
similar actions in other financial and economic institutions in
Herzegovina like a recent action in Herzegovacka Banka.
The media in Bosnia and foreign diplomats envisage that new actions
are likely to be carried out by the Office of the High
Representative (OHR) and SFOR (Stabilisation Force).
In the mid-March, almost 8,000 Croat soldiers left the barracks
after the Croat National Congress called on them to disobey orders
of the newly appointed Croat officials in the Croat-Moslem
Federation and in the state bodies of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Croat
National Congress, led by the HDZ BiH political party, declared a
self-rule in the Croat-populated areas of the Federation in early
March, justifying this step as a response to changes in the
electoral rules imposed by the OSCE. After that the international
community imposed financial sanctions by closing the Hercegovacka
bank, which was viewed by foreign diplomats as the financial
backbone of the Croat self-rule.
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