SARAJEVO, Oct 26 (Hina) - The government of Bosnia-Herzegovina
has not received any official demand by Washington to dismiss
Bosnian Federation Defence Minister Hasan Cengic, Prime Minister
Hasan Muratovic told Sarajevo television on Saturday evening.
Muratovic said that a delay in unloading an arms shipment
for the Federation armed force from a US ship that arrived in the
southern Croatian Adriatic port of Ploce two days ago, was caused
by "some other problems that will probably be solved very soon."
At this moment the Federation government could not relieve
Cengic of his duties because a Federal parliament had not been
constituted yet, he said.
However, Muratovic said that "changes may start when the
Federation government has been reshuffled," but he expressed
confidence that the US arms would be delivered to the Federation
army before that.
The office of President Alija Izetbegovic said in a
statement that the US government had complained about Cengic's
uncooperativeness in the process of drawing up and implementing
federal defence legislation and that it recommended that he be
replaced.
"We have reliable information that for the same reasons a
similar request has been sent in connection with Defence Minister
Vladimir Soljic, so that no 'Iranian connection' or anything
similar is the cause of the American demand," said the statement
carried by the state-run B-H Press news agency.
"President Izetbegovic is confident that the difficulties
will be overcome soon," it said.
According to a statement by the Federation Defence Ministry,
Cengic met in Sarajevo on Saturday with a senior Turkish military
delegation headed by General Ersin Yilmaz.
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