SARAJEVO, Feb 21 (Hina) - Bosnian Serbs on Wednesday continued to leave Sarajevo suburbs due to be handed over to the Moslem-Croat federation under the US-sponsored Dayton peace agreement. Efforts by the NATO-led Implementation Force
(IFOR) and Carl Bildt's Office had not produced any results so far although NATO guaranteed all rights and safety to Serbs who wanted to stay, IFOR spokesman Mark Reiner told a news conference in Sarajevo.
SARAJEVO, Feb 21 (Hina) - Bosnian Serbs on Wednesday continued to
leave Sarajevo suburbs due to be handed over to the Moslem-Croat
federation under the US-sponsored Dayton peace agreement.
Efforts by the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) and Carl
Bildt's Office had not produced any results so far although NATO
guaranteed all rights and safety to Serbs who wanted to stay,
IFOR spokesman Mark Reiner told a news conference in Sarajevo.
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Chris Janowski, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees, said that the mass-scale exodus of Serbs continued on
Wednesday, particularly from the suburbs of Ilidza and Vogosca.
Janowski warned that Serb-controlled media in Pale, east of
Sarajevo, continued to create an atmosphere of fear and
insecurity, calling on Serbs to leave their homes.
"We are not able to stop them. All we can do is tell the
people that there are no deadlines within which they have to
decide whether to stay or leave," Janowski said.
The Serbs were taking with them all they could, leaving only
bare walls in their houses and apartments.
All equipment in factories in Serb-held Sarajevo had been
stripped and taken away. Last week Serbs towed away a train which
had remained blocked on a railway leading to Mostar since the
outbreak of war.
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