SARAJEVO, Feb 10 (Hina) - Official with the NATO-led Bosnian peace Implementation Force (IFOR) Saturday said were hopeful that the relations with the Bosnian Serbs would not go worse, despite some statements coming from Pale.
SARAJEVO, Feb 10 (Hina) - Official with the NATO-led Bosnian peace
Implementation Force (IFOR) Saturday said were hopeful that the
relations with the Bosnian Serbs would not go worse, despite some
statements coming from Pale. #L#
The Force's NATO chief-of-staff General Michael Willcocks
quoted the Bosnian Serb prime minister Rajko Kasagic as saying that
his government would resume to cooperate with the IFOR.
Kasagic however vowed not to contact with the Bosnian
Federation officials until the officers, apprehended under
suspicion of committing war crimes, were released.
The Serb representatives failed to attend the meeting of the
joint military commission which should have been staged Friday, but
all other contacts with the Serb side remained regular, said
Colonel John Kirkwood, a spokesman for the IFOR in Sarajevo.
Omen that the peace process might be stalled altogether due to
recent developments made the U.S. Administration to send a key
architect of the peace, Assistant Secretary of State Richard
Holbrooke, for another tour. Holbrooke was expected to arrive in
Sarajevo on Sunday.
Tensions have significantly risen in Bosnia-Herzegovina over
past two days, particularly in Sarajevo, after two photographers,
Hidajet Delic of the Bosnia's state BH PRESS agency and Srdjan Ilic
of the Associated Press, were reported missing on Thursday.
Ilic was released on Friday, while Delic's fate remained
unknown.
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