SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, May 3 (Hina) - The international community's High Representative in Bosnia, Wolfgang Petritsch, on Thursday visited Banja Luka, where he held talks with Mufti Muhamed Camdzic about preparations for laying the
foundation stone for the reconstruction of the city's central mosque, called the Ferhat-Pasha Mosque. At the same time, a delegation of the Bosnian state Presidency held a meeting with Bosnian Serb officials. The foundation stone for the Banja Luka mosque will be laid on May 7, the same day local Serb authorities razed to the ground the oldest and most beautiful Banja Luka mosque in 1993. Petritsch said it was important to reconstruct the mosque as well as all other destroyed religious buildings in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Bosnian Presidency delegation included all three members - Zivko Radisic, Beriz Belkic and Jozo Krizanovic - who today paid the first such visit to Banja Luka since the sign
SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, May 3 (Hina) - The international community's
High Representative in Bosnia, Wolfgang Petritsch, on Thursday
visited Banja Luka, where he held talks with Mufti Muhamed Camdzic
about preparations for laying the foundation stone for the
reconstruction of the city's central mosque, called the Ferhat-
Pasha Mosque. At the same time, a delegation of the Bosnian state
Presidency held a meeting with Bosnian Serb officials.
The foundation stone for the Banja Luka mosque will be laid on May 7,
the same day local Serb authorities razed to the ground the oldest
and most beautiful Banja Luka mosque in 1993.
Petritsch said it was important to reconstruct the mosque as well as
all other destroyed religious buildings in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Bosnian Presidency delegation included all three members -
Zivko Radisic, Beriz Belkic and Jozo Krizanovic - who today paid the
first such visit to Banja Luka since the signing of the Dayton peace
agreement. The three officials and Republika Srpska leaders
discussed "all open political issues."
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