SARAJEVO, Oct 10 (Hina) - The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in reported on Tuesday its troops have established that Bosnian Croat military and police structures in the central Bosnian town of Vitez have been violating the Dayton
agreement. On October 5, SFOR troops carried out a raid into a building housing the postal office and police administration in Vitez. An SFOR spokeswoman said the SFOR had suspected that the National Security Service (SNS) had from its offices in the building illegally tapped phone conversations and that the Croat component of the Federation Army had been connected to the secret service. The SNS is a secret service controlled by the Bosnian Croat side. During the operation, which was carried out in the early morning hours last Thursday, it was established that installations had been set up to enable the tapping of phone conversations but no tapping equipment was discovered
SARAJEVO, Oct 10 (Hina) - The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR)
in reported on Tuesday its troops have established that Bosnian
Croat military and police structures in the central Bosnian town of
Vitez have been violating the Dayton agreement.
On October 5, SFOR troops carried out a raid into a building housing
the postal office and police administration in Vitez.
An SFOR spokeswoman said the SFOR had suspected that the National
Security Service (SNS) had from its offices in the building
illegally tapped phone conversations and that the Croat component
of the Federation Army had been connected to the secret service.
The SNS is a secret service controlled by the Bosnian Croat side.
During the operation, which was carried out in the early morning
hours last Thursday, it was established that installations had been
set up to enable the tapping of phone conversations but no tapping
equipment was discovered. The SFOR did discover hidden weapons in
the building.
In a local office for defence the SFOR found documentation proving
that the Croat component of the Federation army had been involved in
the gathering of information which could jeopardise operations by
the SFOR and other international organisations, spokeswoman Susan
Grey said.
The confiscated material is being translated and analysed, she
said.
The SNS had on previous occasions been accused of activities aimed
against the implementation of the Dayton peace agreement and the
jeopardising of operations by international organisations in
Bosnia.
The SFOR made these accusations following a raid into the SNS
headquarters in Mostar in October 1999.
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