SARAJEVO, Jan 25 (Hina) - Officials with the NATO-led Bosnian peace Implementation Force (IFOR) in Sarajevo on Thursday said that 23 heavy artillery pieces were still located along the former confrontation lines in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
mainly in northern parts of the country. Excepted is the IFOR's Sector South-East where all the heavy weapons were removed by Wednesday.
SARAJEVO, Jan 25 (Hina) - Officials with the NATO-led Bosnian peace
Implementation Force (IFOR) in Sarajevo on Thursday said that 23
heavy artillery pieces were still located along the former
confrontation lines in Bosnia-Herzegovina, mainly in northern parts
of the country.
Excepted is the IFOR's Sector South-East where all the heavy
weapons were removed by Wednesday. #L#
A spokesman for the IFOR command Marc Rayner said that all the
weaponry, found in the areas which had to be demilitarized by Jan
19, would be destroyed on Friday.
According to IFOR, 39 foreign islamic "Mujahideen" volunteers,
who had been fighting on the government side, were still in Bosnia-
Herzegovina. They were expected to leave within three days. A group
of 37 disarmed "Mujahideen", settled in a camp jointly controlled
by Bosnian army and IFOR, left over Croatia on Wednesday, IFOR
officials said.
(Hina) bk
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