- Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA / FRANCE: NATO AIR STRIKES AROUND SARAJEVO CONTINUE
- Date: 7th September 1995
- Summary: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND PARIS, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 7) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) SARAJEVO AND NEAR SARAJEVO 1. LV SMOKE RISING FROM LUKAVICA 0.20 2. LV AIRCRAFT SEEN IN THE SKY 0.29 3. LV SMOKE RISING 0.35 4. SV RAPID REACTION FORCE SOLDIER ON MOUNT IGMAN LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS (2 SHOTS) 0.46 5. GV BUILDINGS IN VALLEY 0.51 6. LV RRF SOLDIERS BY TANK 0.56 7. LV SMOKE RISING FROM LUKAVICA MILITARY COMPLEX / TANK / AUDIO EXPLOSIONS (5 SHOTS) 1.28 8. LV AIRCRAFT SEEN HIGH IN THE SKY ABOVE CITY 1.42 PARIS, FRANCE 9. SLV ARRIVALS AT ELYSEE PALACE / MEMBER OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE ORGANISATION ARRIVING 2.02 10.SLV EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AMR MOUSSA ARRIVING 2.07 11.SLV BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER MALCOLM RIFKIND ARRIVING 2.22 12.SLV IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALI VELAYATI ARRIVING 2.30 13.SLV GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER KLAUS KINKEL ARRIVING 2.39 14.PAN/SV MEMBERS OF CONTACT GROUP AND ISLAMIC CONFERENCE ORGANISATION SEATED FOR MEETING (3 SHOTS) 3.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 22nd September 1995 13:00
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- Location: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND PARIS, FRANCE
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- Country: France
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- Story Text: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) jets launched more air strikes on targets around Sarajevo on Thursday (September 7).
Three massive explosions were felt in the city shortly after NATO jets were seen flying overhead.
The targets were apparently the Lukavica military complex and an unknown location over the hills around Sarajevo.
Sarajevans welcomed the air strikes - one man said they were a gift from God.
In Paris on Thursday, foreign ministers of the Contact Group of major powers trying to end the war in former Yugoslavia met Islamic states to discuss peace prospects on the eve of face-to-face talks between the warring states in Geneva.
The ministers from the five-nation Contact Group -- the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Germany -- plus Italy, Spain and Canada, met their counterparts from eight member nations of the Islamic Conference Organisation (ICO) -- Egypt, Turkey, Senegal, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Morocco -- plus Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, whose hardline Islamic government has been one of the Bosnian Moslems most outspoken backers, told reporters he was very satisfied that the Contact Group was consulting Moslem countries on Bosnia.
"This cooperation between the two contact groups will be beneficial for the Bosnian people and for peace in the region," he said after meeting French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette.
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