SARAJEVO, March 23 (Hina) - The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) members are to check all military facilities of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, since some of them are believed to store not declared and illegal arms. SFOR
spokeswoman, Sheena Thomson, on Tuesday confirmed that NATO soldiers had combed a day before some of more important military compounds in the Serb Republic. According to Thomson, this operation is linked with an investigation launched after the confiscation of two lorries loaded with weaponry near Brcko, north-eastern Bosnia, on 23 February. The impounded arms should have been resold. The first results of the probe indicated that a great number of members of a Bosnian Serb infantry brigade were directly involved in the arms smuggling. The unit was subsequently disbanded, and its several officers including the commander were labelled as organisers of the illegal trade of arms. The invest
SARAJEVO, March 23 (Hina) - The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR)
members are to check all military facilities of the Bosnian Serb
armed forces, since some of them are believed to store not declared
and illegal arms.
SFOR spokeswoman, Sheena Thomson, on Tuesday confirmed that NATO
soldiers had combed a day before some of more important military
compounds in the Serb Republic.
According to Thomson, this operation is linked with an
investigation launched after the confiscation of two lorries
loaded with weaponry near Brcko, north-eastern Bosnia, on 23
February. The impounded arms should have been resold.
The first results of the probe indicated that a great number of
members of a Bosnian Serb infantry brigade were directly involved
in the arms smuggling. The unit was subsequently disbanded, and its
several officers including the commander were labelled as
organisers of the illegal trade of arms.
The investigation will go on, as there are indications about a
number of hidden warehouses of arms, Thomson said.
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