BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf visits Bosnia, holds news conference

Record ID: 797811

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf visits Bosnia, holds news conference
  • Date: 28th April 2007
  • Summary: MUSHARRAF ADDRESSES BOSNIAN PARLIAMENT (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF SAYS: "Pakistan is extremely proud that we've been part of the effort of the international community to bring peace into Bosnia. Pakistan contributed with troops to the United Nations at the time when maybe many people, maybe, did not welcome us here." MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT LISTEN TO MUSHARRA
  • Embargoed: 13th May 2007 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA3PI4SQN1O1476W4DMK4BLN6DQ
  • Story Text: President Musharraf arrives in the capital Sarajevo for the first official visit to Bosnia. President Musharraf arrived in the capital Sarajevo today (April 27) for the first official visit to Bosnia. Chairman of the Bosnian tri-partite presidency Nikola Radmanovic, together with Ivo Komsic and Haris Silajdzic, members of Bosnian presidency, welcomed President Musharraf at the ceremony in front of the Presidency building downtown Sarajevo where Pakistani delegation is to sign economic and military agreements which should improve cooperation between two countries. President Musharraf who himself served as a UN peacekeeper during the Bosnian war will travel tomorrow to Bosnian town of Tuzla to pay tribute to Pakistani troops were part of UN troops in Bosnia. The two-day visit to Bosnia the Pakistani leader will finish by paying respects to victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Potocari.
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