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Croatia and Bosnia to draw up joint mine clearance projects

Autor: mses
SARAJEVO, Dec 17 (Hina) - Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will offer joint mine clearance projects to potential donors and they will also consider possibilities of joint ventures of their mine clearance specialists in other countries affected by this problem, the head of the the fund for mine-free Croatia and member of the parliament, Djurdja Adlesic, said in Sarajevo on Friday.

Adlesic held talks with Zlatko Horvat , a member of the Bosnian parliamentary commission for de-mining.

During the talks it was concluded that the two countries would prioritize plans for clearing Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in ten years' time of land mines left over from the wars of the 1990s.

Joint ventures can help ensure funds for this purpose.

Adlesic said that so far Croatia had on its own covered 60 percent of all mine removal costs and that considering the changed financial situation the country would have to rely more on potential investors and other external sources in the future.

The head of the Croatian mine action centre, Zdravko Modrusan, said that in Croatia about 800 square kilometres of land was suspected to be still infested with mines.

According to some estimates, there are still some 90,000 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines left over from the war in Croatia.

In Bosnia, this problem is worse as 1,460 square metres, which is 2.85 percent of its entire territory, is believed to be strewn with 200,000 land mines and booby traps.

The director of the Slovenian-based International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF), Dorijan Marsic, commended Bosnian and Croatian mine removal specialists as the best in the world.

In the last 12 years, the ITF helped humanitarian de-mining programmes with USD 325 million in southeastern Europe.

Adlesic told reporters that Croatia and Bosnia would draw up joint projects for demining by February which should be later offered to potential donors such as the World Bank, European funds and private companies.

(Hina) ms

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