ISLAMIC COUNTRIES CONSIDER AID TO BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, June 27 (Hina) - OIC (Organisation for Islamic Conference) twenty member-countries' representatives gathered in Sarajevo on Friday at a meeting of a working group for collection of aid for Bosnia- Herzegovina. Tasks of the working group, founded in September 1995, are to distribute humanitarian, legal and military assistance of Islamic countries for Bosnia as well as to offer the help in reconstruction of this country. Bosnian Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic opened the Sarajevo meeting. He thanked Islamic countries for all they had done so far for Bosnia and called on them to continue supporting implementation of the Dayton agreement. Although they have been invited, representatives of the Bosnian Serb entity have not accepted participation in the work of the Sarajevo meeting. OIC member-states are set to grant US$ 241 dollars of help for Bosnia for the time being. (hina) jn mš 271745 MET jun 97