$ SARAJEVO, March 16 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina needs immediate economic help to enable its reconstruction and return of refugees, Bosnian Prime Minister, Hasan Muratovic said Saturday in his speech at the opening of a conference on
the reconstruction program in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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SARAJEVO, March 16 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina needs immediate
economic help to enable its reconstruction and return of refugees,
Bosnian Prime Minister, Hasan Muratovic said Saturday in his speech
at the opening of a conference on the reconstruction program in
Bosnia-Herzegovina. #L#
Speaking to the participants of the conference from 40
countries world-wide and from important international financial
institutions, Muratovic said that war damage in Bosnia had been
assessed at about $US 80 billion. More than 40% of the whole
housing fund and 65% of industrial equipment had been destroyed in
Bosnia, Muratovic said.
He recalled that only one percent of the population in Bosnia
were employed and more than 80% of the population depended on
humanitarian aid.
"To help in the reconstruction is the moral duty of the world
which did nothing to prevent the catastrophe of war," Muratovic
said.
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