SARAJEVO, 4 Feb (Hina) - Members of the Bosnian Serb police force this morning entered the village of Jusici, northern Bosnia. A group of Muslim refugees, who were expelled from the village at the beginning of the war, recently
returned to Jusici. There were no incidents during the entry of the Serb police who would perform their duties under full control of the International Police Task Force (IPTF), U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko told a press conference in Sarajevo on Tuesday.
SARAJEVO, 4 Feb (Hina) - Members of the Bosnian Serb police
force this morning entered the village of Jusici, northern
Bosnia. A group of Muslim refugees, who were expelled from the
village at the beginning of the war, recently returned to
Jusici. There were no incidents during the entry of the Serb
police who would perform their duties under full control of
the International Police Task Force (IPTF), U.N. spokesman
Alexander Ivanko told a press conference in Sarajevo on
Tuesday. #L#
The Serb police will also have a permanent station in
which returnees will be able to submit requests for the
issuing of ID papers.
Joint Serb and IPTF patrols have already been set up in
Mahala, another Muslim village in the inter-entity separation
zone. The return of Bosniac refugees to the two villages
caused considerable tensions in northern Bosnia as Serbs were
trying to prevent it at all costs. They gave up their campaign
after requests made by the international community.
The setting up of prefab houses in Gajevi, another
village in the Serb entity, continued, Ivanko said. The houses
would be allocated to 36 Muslim families.
Robert Wasserman, who is currently performing the duty of
IPTF commissioner in Bosnia, was dissatisfied with cooperation
of western Mostar police, Ivanko said. The local police were
refusing to let the IPTF inspect their documentation,
especially documents concerning flat evictions and a recent
attack on the high UN official Alva Emerson, Ivanko said.
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