SARAJEVO, Feb 8 (Hina) - The task of the Spanish IFOR unit in Bosnia-Herzegovina was to control the situation in the Mostar area but it was for the police in the city to take care of the security, spokesman for the Implementation
Force (IFOR) in Sarajevo, Marc Rayner, told a press conference today. Rayner stressed that the commander of the Spanish IFOR unit in Mostar had the authority to determine how many military patrols would be present in the city.
SARAJEVO, Feb 8 (Hina) - The task of the Spanish IFOR unit in
Bosnia-Herzegovina was to control the situation in the Mostar area
but it was for the police in the city to take care of the security,
spokesman for the Implementation Force (IFOR) in Sarajevo, Marc
Rayner, told a press conference today. Rayner stressed that the
commander of the Spanish IFOR unit in Mostar had the authority to
determine how many military patrols would be present in the city.
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IFOR estimated that the situation in Mostar was quiet after
the Croatian police had provided protection for EU Administrator of
Mostar Hans Koschnik, in the Administration's headquarters late
yesterday afternoon.
Immediately after the outbreak of yesterday's demonstrations,
the President of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kresimir
Zubak, met for talks with U.N. Secretary General's representative
in Sarajevo, Iqbal Riza.
U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko today stated that President
Zubak had been informed about the serious concern of the United
Nations as regards the situation in Mostar and the fact that the
events in the city could endanger the whole peace process.
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