SARAJEVO, Jan 14 (Hina) - Spokesman of the Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Sarajevo Jan Joosten said that a fairly large amount of weapons had been found in Livno (southwest Bosnia- Herzegovina) during a regular inspection of police
stations in the country.
SARAJEVO, Jan 14 (Hina) - Spokesman of the Stabilization Force
(SFOR) in Sarajevo Jan Joosten said that a fairly large amount
of weapons had been found in Livno (southwest Bosnia-
Herzegovina) during a regular inspection of police stations in
the country. #L#
SFOR troops had found 300 different types of guns and
machine guns in a Livno police station. The police were given
a deadline of 48 hours within which they should transport the
weapons in one of the warehouses where it is allowed to keep
that kind of weapons.
A rather large amount of the weapons was on Tuesday
transported from a police station in Celic.
Under a decision of the international police commissioner
in Bosnia, Peter Fitzgerald, the amount of long-barreled
weapons in police stations is strictly limited. During regular
tasks, the civilian police can only hold pistols and only one
gun or machine gun is allowed per ten police officers in
stations.
UN spokesman in Sarajevo Aleksandar Ivanko said on
Wednesday that Interior Minister of the Serb entity, Dragan
Kijac, had expressed dissatisfaction about such a decision and
had asked for an urgent meeting with Fitzgerald.
In a letter forwarded to Fitzgerald, Kijac claimed that
the restriction in the allowed amount of weapons in police
stations was not in line with the Dayton Agreement. Ivanko
said on Wednesday that the statement was not correct and that
he would not give up the restriction, nor would he allow the
decision to be violated.
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