YUGOSLAVIA: U.N. MONITORS ON THE YUGOSLAV-BOSNIAN BORDER SAY THEY ARE BEING GIVEN FULL COOPERATION FROM YUGOSLAV POLICE

Record ID: 646084

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: U.N. MONITORS ON THE YUGOSLAV-BOSNIAN BORDER SAY THEY ARE BEING GIVEN FULL COOPERATION FROM YUGOSLAV POLICE
  • Date: 16th December 1994
  • Summary: LOCATIONS ALONG YUGOSLAV-BOSNIAN/PRIBOJ AND UVAC, YUGOSLAVIA (DECEMBER 16, 1994) (REUTERS TELEVISION-ACCESS ALL) LOCATIONS ALONG YUGOSLAV-BOSNIA BORDER 1. AV MOUNTAINS (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. AV RIVER DRINA/MOUNTAINS 0.27 PRIBOJ, YUGOSLAVIA 3. SV RAILWAY YARD 0.31 4. SV UNITED NATIONS (U.B.) MONITOR SEALS CARRIAGES WITH PLASTIC SEALS (2 SHOTS) 0.56 5. SCU U.N. MONITOR AIDEN ROUCHE SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.20 UVAC 6. SV YUGOSLAV POLICE AT CHECKPOINT, CHECKING VEHICLES (2 SHOTS) 1.38 SEQUENCE 5 transcript: ROUCHE :"WE HAVE CHECKED 300 TRAINS TO DATE AND HAVE USED 8500 SEALS ON THOSE TRAINS. WE HAVE FOUND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG TO DATE. WE HAVE PATROLLED, WE HAVE OBSERVED DURING THE DAY AND DURING THE NIGHT. WE HAVE GOT THE UTMOST CO-OPERATION FROM THE LOCAL PEOPLE BOTH IN UJITSA, BOTH IN PRIBOJ AND BELGRADE AND TO DATE WE HAVE FOUND NOTHING WRONG" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 31st December 1994 12:00
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  • Location: VARIOUS ALONG YUGOSLAV-BOSNIAN BORDER/PRIBOJ AND UVAC, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA8HJL4CVXDFYXBR8I491XVF7HM
  • Story Text: United Nations monitors on the Yugoslav-Bosnian border, part of the International Conference on Former Yugoslavia (ICFY) mission,on Friday (December 17) said they were being give full cooperation from Yugoslav police, and had not discovered any incidents of sanction-busting.

    U.N. monitor Aiden Rouche working in the border railway town of Priboj said his team had searched 300 trains and sealed 8,500 containers to prevent arms or fuel reaching Bosnian Serbs.

    Rouche's comments appeared to confirm a report by Swedish General Bo Pellnas to the United Nations Security Council on December 6 stating that Yugoslav authorities had effectively blocked the frontier to Bosnia as promised by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

    Milosevic cut off military, economic and political assistance to Bosnian Serbs on August 4 after they had rejected an international peace plan. His move resulted in some sanctions on Serbian-led Yugoslavia being eased.

    Pellnas's mission has been criticised because his team is too small to cover the 550 km (330 miles) long border and because it works under the supervision of Yugoslav police and customs and has no power to stop and inspect trucks.

    The team is on a mission to ensure that only humanitarian aid reaches Bosnia.


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