ZAGREB, Jan 12 (Hina) - More than a half of the troops scheduled to be deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina have arrived so far, an official with the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) said on Friday.
ZAGREB, Jan 12 (Hina) - More than a half of the troops scheduled to
be deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina have arrived so far, an official
with the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) said on Friday. #L#
Around 35,000 troops have flown in so far, mostly over Zupanja
pontoon bridge and by air-lift to Tuzla which had carried some 500
flights, director of the IFOR's Joint Movement Coordination Center,
British Royal Air Force's Captain Don Cannon, told a news
conference in Zagreb.
Cannon praised the U.S.-made pontoon bridge on the Sava river,
saying it was longest such military facility to be constructed
after World War Two.
A vanguard of the Russian IFOR troops were to arrive on
Friday, he added, comprising 150 paratroops carrying equipment for
the 1,600-strong Russian airborne brigade, scheduled to be deployed
in the northern corridor along with the Americans.
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