EU TO INCREASE HUMANITARIAN AID FOR BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, Jan 28 (Hina) - The European Union's commissioner for humanitarian issues, Emma Bonino, Saturday held talks in Sarajevo with Bosnia-Herzegovina's senior officials on the humanitarian situation and war consequences. Bonino told journalists that the chief purpose of her visit to Sarajevo was to check the efficiency of the present way of delivering humanitarian aid and to agree on new models of aid to the civilian population. Bosnian Federation's Refugees and Social Welfare Deputy Minister, Martin Raguz, said the EU was one of most important donors of humanitarian aid to the countries had emerged from the former Yugoslavia. He added that during today's talks Bosnian officials and representatives of the EU commission for humanitarian aid had agreed that this organization should increase the delivery of relief aid by eight per cent this year. They also agreed that new ways of dispatching humanitarian aid should be considered for civilians in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and that the quality of relief aid should be at a higher level as well. (hina) mms 281653 MET jan 95