SARAJEVO, Jan 17 (Hina) - All Bosnian factions continued on Wednesday to remove mine fields scattered along former confrontation lines, officials with the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) said, specifying that the sides which had
planted the mines were also expected to clear them, while IFOR was only overseeing.
SARAJEVO, Jan 17 (Hina) - All Bosnian factions continued on
Wednesday to remove mine fields scattered along former
confrontation lines, officials with the NATO-led Implementation
Force (IFOR) said, specifying that the sides which had planted the
mines were also expected to clear them, while IFOR was only
overseeing. #L#
Most busy was in northern Bosnia, the officials in Sarajevo
H.Q. added, where the roads, which had been blocked for years, were
now also being cleared of mines.
The French IFOR troops on Tuesday started patrolling the
airstrip in Visoko, some 30 kilometers north of Sarajevo. The
airstrip, so far not accessible to international observers, has
been constructed by Bosnian army during the war.
A spokesman for NATO in Sarajevo, Col. Marc Reiner underscored
that IFOR did not inform the Bosnian government on patrols in
advance, as IFOR never announces the movement of its troops to the
sides.
IFOR also continued its control over electric, natural gas and
water supply utilities in the currently Serb-controlled suburbs of
Sarajevo. No incidents have been registered so far, the officials
said.
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