SARAJEVO/BRUSSELS, May 21 (Hina) - All expectations in Bosnia-Herzegovina were exceeded after more than one billion US dollars have been promised at an international donor conference taking place in Brussels on Thursday and Friday as
part of continued donor assistance to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Representatives of 45 countries and 30 international organisations confirmed they would implement an assistance plan for Bosnia's reconstruction, as promised upon the signing of the Dayton peace agreement. The official organisers of the donor conference, the World Bank and the European Commission, said Bosnia-Herzegovina would get US$1.05 billion in new donations. Some Sarajevo-based media, such as Dnevni Avaz daily, on Friday reported the amount would actually total US$1.38 billion. US$1.1 billion would allegedly be aimed at reconstruction projects, while some US$278 million would go to f
SARAJEVO/BRUSSELS, May 21 (Hina) - All expectations in Bosnia-
Herzegovina were exceeded after more than one billion US dollars
have been promised at an international donor conference taking
place in Brussels on Thursday and Friday as part of continued donor
assistance to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Representatives of 45 countries and 30 international organisations
confirmed they would implement an assistance plan for Bosnia's
reconstruction, as promised upon the signing of the Dayton peace
agreement.
The official organisers of the donor conference, the World Bank and
the European Commission, said Bosnia-Herzegovina would get US$1.05
billion in new donations. Some Sarajevo-based media, such as Dnevni
Avaz daily, on Friday reported the amount would actually total
US$1.38 billion.
US$1.1 billion would allegedly be aimed at reconstruction
projects, while some US$278 million would go to finance the work of
international organisations in Bosnia.
The said sums will fully make up the planned US$5.1 billion of
foreign donations for the country.
The distribution ratio for Bosnia's two entities will most probably
stay within the previously determined 70:30 scale in favour of the
Croat-Muslim Federation, even though many participants in the
Brussels conference expressed particular concern for the situation
in the Bosnian Serb entity, where the economy has been badly
affected by the crisis in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Bosnian media also registered United States special envoy for the
Balkans Robert Gelbard's appeal to have international assistance
to Sarajevo stopped due to the capital's authorities' obstructions
in the implementation of a declaration envisaging the return of
20,000 non-Muslims to the capital.
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