BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA/RUSSIA: SWEDISH UNPROFOR PEACEKEEPERS ESCAPE BOSNIAN BATTLE ZONE

Record ID: 350361

  • Title: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA/RUSSIA: SWEDISH UNPROFOR PEACEKEEPERS ESCAPE BOSNIAN BATTLE ZONE
  • Date: 27th March 1995
  • Summary: UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS, NEAR TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/ MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MARCH 27-28, 1995)(REUTERS TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, NEAR TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (MARCH 27) 1. GV EXTERIORS OF JOINT SWEDISH AND DANISH "NORDBAT 2" BATTALION 0.04 UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, NEAR TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (MARCH 28)
  • Embargoed: 11th April 1995 13:00
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  • Location: UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS, NEAR TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA2AOA8PKUM1SZ68BKPVZFUZBXI
  • Story Text: Twenty-five Swedish United Nations (U.N.) peacekeepers, trapped for a week in a Bosnian battle zone, sneaked to safety on Monday (March 27) under the guns of the warring parties, a Swedish officer said.

    Sweden's TT news agency on Tuesday quoted Nordic battalion commander Colonel Peter Lundberg as saying 23 fresh Swedish troops replaced their war-weary compatriots at observation posts near Tuzla, in northeastern Bosnia.

    The switch was carried out without Bosnian army permission.

    Nordic battalion (Nordbat) commander Colonel Peter Lundberg said the Bosnian goverment army had refused to allow supplies to reach the trapped soldiers or an evacuation of them to take place.

    The 25 Swedes, scheduled to end their tour of duty and return home on April 1, had been trapped at the observation posts since March 20, when the Bosnian army offensive began.

    Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said in Moscow on Tuesday (March 28), that he was worried by an upsurge in Bosnian fighting and hoped the five-nation Contact Group on former Yugoslavia would agree new measures to solve the crisis.

    "There are alarming tendencies... But I hope the group will come up with a fresher and more active package of measures," Kozyrev told reporters at Moscow's Vnukovo-2 airport before leaving for a trip to the Middle East.

    Kozyrev gave no details of what measures he had in mind but he said talks with United States Secretary of State Warren Christopher and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe had created grounds for hoping the group could work out fresh proposals.


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