ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - Mine clearing is a great problem in Croatia and is high on the list of Government priorities. This is why Croatia applauds all initiatives assisting it in solving the problem, Croatian First Deputy Prime
Minister Goran Granic said on Wednesday. He gave this statement on the occasion of the hand over of a check on US55,000 gathered by members of the American non-government project Mines to Vines, for programmes of mine clearing in Cista Mala and Cista Velika towns near the south Adriatic Croatian town of Zadar. "There is no final end of the war and stabilisation without mine-clearing," Granic said. A private humanitarian American group are visiting Croatia from may 9 to 15, including vine-growers, university professors, representatives of the Roots for Peace organisation and members of the world humanitarian mine clearing programme of the US State Department. The sum of US$55,000 will be dou
ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - Mine clearing is a great problem in Croatia
and is high on the list of Government priorities. This is why
Croatia applauds all initiatives assisting it in solving the
problem, Croatian First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic said on
Wednesday.
He gave this statement on the occasion of the hand over of a check on
US55,000 gathered by members of the American non-government
project Mines to Vines, for programmes of mine clearing in Cista
Mala and Cista Velika towns near the south Adriatic Croatian town of
Zadar.
"There is no final end of the war and stabilisation without mine-
clearing," Granic said.
A private humanitarian American group are visiting Croatia from may
9 to 15, including vine-growers, university professors,
representatives of the Roots for Peace organisation and members of
the world humanitarian mine clearing programme of the US State
Department.
The sum of US$55,000 will be doubled by the US Government via the
Slovene international fund for helping mine-victims and mine-
clearing, whose representative received the check.
Besides money, the group gathered material help worth US$66,000,
which will also be doubled by the US Government.
Lynn Montgomery, the wife of US Ambassador to Croatia, has greatly
contributed to the implementation of the entire programme. Thanks
to the efforts of the above mentioned organisations, the US Embassy
in Zagreb, and the US Government, almost US$750,000 have been
gathered for mine clearing and other reconstruction projects in the
area around Sibenik and Zadar.
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