BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: A UNITED NATIONS EMERGENCY RELIEF CONVOY CROSSED FROM CROATIA INTO BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA BOUND FOR THE CROAT-BESIEGED TOWN OF MOSTAR.

Record ID: 337794

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: A UNITED NATIONS EMERGENCY RELIEF CONVOY CROSSED FROM CROATIA INTO BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA BOUND FOR THE CROAT-BESIEGED TOWN OF MOSTAR.
  • Date: 24th August 1993
  • Summary: MEDJUGORJE, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (AUGUST 24, 1993) 1. GVS/SVS: UNITED NATIONS WORKERS PREPARING VEHICLES (7 SHOTS) 0.33 2. GVS: INTERIOR OF WAREHOUSE WITH SUPPLIES (2 SHOTS) 0.49 3. SCU: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSION FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR) SPOKESMAN IN MEDJUGORJE JERRY HULME GIVING INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONVOY (ENGLISH) 1.12 4. SVS: U.N. JEEP PREPARING TO LEAVE (2 SHOTS) 1.20 5. SCU: UNHCR (UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES) SPOKESMAN KEN HARVEY SPEAKING ABOUT SUPPLIES CONVOY IS CARRYING (ENGLISH) 1.56 6. GV: CONVOY PREPARING TO LEAVE 1.58 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 3, UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSION FOR REFUGEES SPOKESMAN JERRY HULME: "THE AGREEMENT WAS REACHED YESTERDAY FOR THE CONVOY TO GO INTO EAST BANK OF MOSTAR THERE WILL BE NINTEEN 5521/93: PAGE 2 VEHICLES THEY WILL BE LEAVIING HERE ABOUT HALF PAST TEN VERY SHORTLY AND WE WILL FORM UP AT MEDJUGORJE AT TWO O'CLOCK AND HOPE TO BE IN MOSTAR BY FOUR THIS AFTERNOON." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 5, UNHCR SPOKESMAN KEN HARVEY: "YES WE HAVE NINTEEN VEHICLES GOING IN THIS MORNING THERE WILL BE TWO VEHICLES LOADED WITH MEDICINE'S AND MEDICAL KITS,THE OTHER SEVENTEEN VEHICLES WILL BE LOADED WITH BASIC FOOD REQUIREMENTS SUCH AS FLOUR, LENTILS, OIL, FISH, YEAST, AND ALSO AMONGST THIS WILL BE TWO TONS OF KINGS RECOVERY FOOD WHICH IS FOR MALNOURISHED PEOPLE WHICH IS VERY VERY RICH IN PROTEINS AND EXTREMELY NUTRITIOUS." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 8th September 1993 13:00
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  • Location: MEDJUGORJE, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVABAMMUDOMMJAUM26SCMZL6VQV3
  • Story Text: A United Nations (U.N.) emergency relief convoy crossed from Croatia into Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday (August 24) bound for the Croat-besieged town of Mostar, where 55,000 people are desperately short of food and medicine.

    But one report said the convoy had been held up inside Bosnia.

    The Bosnian Croat military earlier on Tuesday temporarily lifted an 80-day-old blockade of Moslem-populated east Mostar, clearing the way for the food convoy, as Croat-Moslem fighting resurged in the divided southwestern city.

    A U.N. official said the 19-truck convoy carrying 200 tonnes of aid crossed the border and would link up with the U.N. Spanish battalion escort in Medjugorje before going on to Mostar.

    UNPROFOR (U.N. Protection Force) civil affairs director Cedric Thornberry plans to lead the emergency aid convoy into Mostar.

    The convoy had enough food for a week, said U.N. High Commission for Refugees spokesman Ken Harvey. U.N. officials said some inhabitants could die of starvation within days unless food shipments arrived.

    In Mostar itself, doctors reported that at least two civilians were killed and five soldiers wounded on Tuesday after mortar bombs hit the Moslem hospital.


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