EU AMBASSADORS VISIT TUZLA CANTON

( Editorial: --> 3388 ) TUZLA, 12 May (Hina)- During its visit to the Tuzla-Podrinje Canton on Tuesday, a five-member delegation of the European Union met local officials and representatives of international organisations. At the end of the visit, head of the delegation, British Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Charles Crawford told the press that the two parties discussed the EU's assistance to Bosnia by the end of this year. The money will be invested into reconstruction of infrastructure, stimulation of the return process and improvement of relations between the entities, Crawford stressed. Greek Ambassador Prokopios Mantzourianis said the Greek and Bosnian governments had already agreed on several projects, including a donation of coaches for inter-regional and inter- entity transport. Mantzourianis also mentioned the interest of Greek investors in the purchase of Tuzla's Komercijalna banka. Before its trip to Brcko, the delegation visited the neuropsychiatric hospital in Tuzla, for whose reconstruction the EU paid one million Ecu. (Hina) mr 122020 MET may 98