BORDER CROSSING BETWEEN CROATIA, BH OPENED ACROSS SAVA RIVER

STARA/BOSANSKA GRADISKA, Sept 26 (Hina) - A protocol on free transport of goods and people between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was signed on Friday by the deputy international high representative for BH, U.S. General Jacques Klein, Croatian Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications Zeljko Luzavec and a member of the Bosnian Council for Civil Issues, Spasoje Albijanic. The protocol was signed on the so called neutral zone of the Sava River Bridge, which connects the towns of Stara Gradiska (Croatia) and Bosanska Gradiska (the Bosnian Serb Republic, northern BH). According to General Klein, the signing of the protocol marked the official opening of a border crossing across the Sava River between Stara Gradiska and Bosanska Gradiska. Croatia's Luzavec said the Croatian government had waited three and a half months for the protocol to be signed. Thanks to General Klein, the procedure had been stepped up and completed, he said. According to Albijanic, the protocol augured for a good future of the Bosnian Serb Republic and that part of BH. (hina) ha mm 261830 MET sep 97