FENA 03/09/2004 - Lidija Topic meets Herbert Bradford (GFATM); COLAK DENIES CLAIMS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN’S MESSAGE WAS DISCOVERED IN BiH

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FSA5771: 03.09.2004 08:42

MORNING SERVICE

GENEVA: TOPIC MEETS BRADFORD

SARAJEVO/GENEVA, September 3 (FENA) – BiH Deputy Foreign Minister Lidija Topic is in Geneva where she is participating in the regional consultations following UNICEF’s Conference on Children’s Rights, which took place in Sarajevo May 13 to 15, as well as the Conference Dedicated to Children in Berlin in 2001.

Topic on Friday met with the Deputy Director of the Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Herbert Bradford, was announced by BiH Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Talks focused on BiH’s application for receiving financial support from the Fund for battling and treating AIDS.

Bradford informed Topic that BiH is classified in the third group of countries that have applied for support from the Fund. Thus, BiH is encouraged to apply for the new, fifth round of granting funds, which will be considered November 19 at the meeting of Fund’s Directors.

Bradford also offered technical support for designing BiH’s application.

GFATM disposes with US$ 3.2 billion divided on 132 countries of the world, which are intended for preventing and battling AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

BiH is not a country with a great number of infected persons, but is regarded as a country of high risk.

(Fena) gk

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FSA5772: 03.09.2004 08:51

MORNING SERVICE

CAVIC AND MICIC HANDED KEYS TO 23 APARTMENTS IN MODRICA

MODRICA, September 3 (FENA) – RS President Dragan Cavic and Minister of Labour and Veterans-Invalids’ Protection Mico Micic on Friday in Modrica handed keys of 23 apartments to the families of fallen members of RS Army and military invalids from the so-called priority groups. 

The ceremony was attended by representatives of Modrica Municipal administration and representatives of Entity veterans’ associations. 

The funds for building the housing units for the families of the most endangered veterans’ categories in Modrica were insured by the local administration and RS Government.

(Fena) gk

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FSA5775: 03.09.2004 09:01

MORNING SERVICE

FBiH REGULATORY COMMISSION FOR ELECTRIC ENERGY SESSION ON SEPTEMBER 14

MOSTAR, September 3 (FENA) – FBiH Regulatory Commission for Electric Energy (FERK) will hold its first session on September 14 in Mostar.

The Commission was formed in accordance with the Law on Electric Energy with the aim of disabling monopoly in the electro-energetic sector, realizing electric energy production and disabling third parties from accessing the distribution network, was announced by FERK.

 (Fena) dps

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FSA5777: 03.09.2004 09:31

MORNING SERVICE

COLAK DENIES CLAIMS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN’S MESSAGE WAS DISCOVERED IN BiH

SARAJEVO, September 3 (FENA) – BiH Minister of Security Barisa Colak on Friday denied the claims of Russian Agency RIA News according to which a message from the leader of Al-Qaida Osama bin Laden, which calls on terrorist attacks against Russia, was discovered in BiH. 

- There is not a single information or a shred of evidence to support such claims, and this is not the first time we have spreading of groundless claims of this kind, which are aimed at presenting BiH as a base of terrorists, and there were all found to be incorrect, Colak told BH Radio 1.

The text of RIA analyst Vladimir Simonov announced yesterday states that the American investigators have recently found a source of financing the Chechen gangs in Chicago. This investigation resulted in shutting down the international foundation Benevolence, which had transferred US$ 300.000 to rebels in Chechnya.

“In searching the Bosnian branch of this foundation the investigators discovered a simple, written by hand, order of Osama bin Laden ‘it is time to attack Russia’, Simonov wrote on Thursday for RIA News. 

(Fena) bdz

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