SARAJEVO, May 6 (Hina) - The European Union (EU) is capable of ensuring sufficient financial means for the Balkan region, both for humanitarian purposes and projects of the reconstruction after the current crisis on Yugoslavia
(Serbia/Montenegro)is solved, said the EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Operations, Emma Bonino, in Sarajevo on Thursday. At a news conference held upon her arrival in the Bosnian capital, Bonino stressed that the EU had so far showed generosity concerning the provision of financial support, particularly for refugees in Bosnia. Problems, however, appeared due to ineffective administrative procedures which hindered the implementation of the granted money, she explained. Bonino told the conference that the European Commission had recently granted additional 150 million euro for humanitarian programmes in relation to the Kosovo crisis. A part of the money could
SARAJEVO, May 6 (Hina) - The European Union (EU) is capable of
ensuring sufficient financial means for the Balkan region, both for
humanitarian purposes and projects of the reconstruction after the
current crisis on Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro)is solved, said
the EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Operations, Emma Bonino, in
Sarajevo on Thursday.
At a news conference held upon her arrival in the Bosnian capital,
Bonino stressed that the EU had so far showed generosity concerning
the provision of financial support, particularly for refugees in
Bosnia. Problems, however, appeared due to ineffective
administrative procedures which hindered the implementation of the
granted money, she explained.
Bonino told the conference that the European Commission had
recently granted additional 150 million euro for humanitarian
programmes in relation to the Kosovo crisis. A part of the money
could be approved for projects in Bosnia, she added.
The head of the EU mission in Bosnia, Hansjoerg Kretschmer warned
that Bosnian authorities must be aware that the international
community would shift its attention in future to Kosovo. He called
on Bosnian officials to use this year as the last one in which they
could count on a significant influx of international funds.
Bonino endorsed the orientation toward speedier integration of the
area of the former Yugoslavia and Albania into European
associations, explaining that it would be the only way for
prevention of fresh conflict and crises in the region.
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