SARAJEVO, Feb 22 (Hina) - "Our estimation is that almost all Serbs will leave Vogosca on the basis of commands they have received from Pale authorities", the Bosnian Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic said Thursday after he met with his
Swedish counterpart Leni Hjelm- Wallen.
SARAJEVO, Feb 22 (Hina) - "Our estimation is that almost all Serbs
will leave Vogosca on the basis of commands they have received from
Pale authorities", the Bosnian Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic said
Thursday after he met with his Swedish counterpart Leni Hjelm-
Wallen. #L#
"If the exodus continues, that will be the failure of the
peace process as well", the Swedish foreign minister said.
Spokesman of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), Chris Janowski, said that the situation in Vogosca was
very tense today. According to unofficial information, the Serbs
who were leaving the suburb were openly threatening those Serbs who
intended to stay and they were even burning their houses, Janowski
said.
The roads connecting Vogosca with Pale are clogged with
columns of vehicles.
U.N. spokesman Aleksander Ivanko said that since last night 70
international policemen were deployed in Vogosca. Their number
would grow to 90 tomorrow, Ivanko said, adding the policemen were
mostly from Denmark, Ireland and Poland. The Serb police would
cease to exist in Vogosca at 6 am tomorrow and the first group of
44 policemen of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina would enter
the suburb, Ivanko said.
Ivanko accused the Bosnian Serb political leadership in Pale
of continuing a calculated media campaign with the aim to move the
Serbs to leave Vogosca.
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