For History Lovers - June, 1994 - Month that Shaped Future of BiH

A summary of events in Bosnia and Herzegovina following the signing of the Geneva truce agreement on the 8th of June, 1994 (effective as of the 10th of June) providing for a month suspension of offensive military operations and provocative actions between the Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) and Presidency (BiH) Forces in BiH (UNPROFOR News, no. 9)

• Fighting and heavy shelling continued between the rival Muslim parties in the Bihac pocket  over entire June and July (on the 14th of June more than 1300 detonations were reported).
• Breaches of the Truce Agreement and casualties: Brcko (civilian casualties) , Gorazde (presence of the BSA in the exclusion zone), Maglaj (Britbat -1 Warriors engaged in fire with the BSA), Sarajevo (two civilians hit by sniper fire - one fatally - from unidentified side and one Serb civilian killed by sniper fire from the BiH Army side), Velebit mountains (a Jordanian Battalion 3 soldier - seriously injured in a mine explosion), Gorazde (a Britbat soldier injured in a mine explosion and one British soldier killed on the 26th of June as the result of the attack of the BSA and BiH forces directed at Ukrainian and British observation posts), Sector South (a Canadian soldier killed and two injured in a mine explosion), Sector North (two Polish soldiers killed and two injured in a mine explosion and one Croat civilian killed and three injured as a result of the collision between an UNPROFOR vehicle and a motorcycle), near Tesanj (a Britbat armored vehicle seriously damaged in a mine explosion leaving unidentified number of injured soldiers), Kiseljak (a Canadian soldier wounded by BiH forces).  
• Intensification of work of the five-nation Contact Group on the former Yugoslavia resulting in the completion of the proposed map of BiH. On the 5th of July they met in Geneva to approve a peace plan for BiH proposing a 51 (Serb side) - 49 (Muslim-Croat Federation) percent division of territory.
• Sarajevo meeting of donors and international agencies chaired by William Eagleton, Special Coordinator for the restoration of essential public services, which was followed by a pledging conference for the restoration of services in Sarajevo in New York, where ca $68 million was pledged by 20 Governments and the Soros Foundation. 
• On the 24th June, Lord Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg (Co-chairmen of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia) met in Corfu with the European Union Ministers, that was followed by the meeting with the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Yasushi Akashi in Zagreb
• A 1,450-strong Turkish Battalion joined UNPROFOR.
• Planning for the arrival of additional UNPROFOR personnel from Pakistan and Bangladesh.
• Over two years a daily average of 163 tonnes of food and aid was delivered to Sarajevo.

Safet Oručević 1995. godine tražio da policija Republike Hrvatske patrolira Mostarom

U pismu Hansu Koschnicku, administratoru Administracije Evropske unije u Mostaru, tadašnji gradonačelnik tadašnjeg Istočnog Mostara, Safet Oručević, u januaru 1995. predložio da se u Mostar pozove policija iz Republike Hrvatske da patrolira Mostarom umjesto policije tadašnjeg Zapadnog Mostara.

U istom pismu koje je objavljeno u br. 7 novina koje su izdavali Muslimani/Bošnjaci u Istočnom Mostaru pod nazivom: "Stari most", Oručević traži administrativno uređenje grada sa šest općina radi očuvanja multietničkog karaktera Mostara, nazivajući Mostar stolnim gradom Hrvata i glavnim gradom Bošnjaka Hercegovine.

Iako se Oručević stalno poziva na multietničnost, zanimljivo je da za njega u Mostaru postoje samo Hrvati i Bošnjaci. U skladu sa njegovim prijedlozima, funkciju gradonačelnika i guvernera Neretvanskog kantona mogu isključivo vršiti Bošnjaci i Hrvati.

    

Hrvatska #INA među najvećim eksploatatorima naftnih polja kod Palmire

Kako piše hrvatski Express, među globalnim gigantima, koji drže naftna polja u Siriji, i to u okolini drevne Palmire, nalazi se i hrvatska INA.
Express navodi da ta polja predstavljaju obiteljsko blago cijele kompanije, jer su to najvrednija polja gdje INA ima pravo na eksploataciju.
2012. godine, INA je trljala ruke zato što su otkrili bogato nalazište plina i nafte i upravo su bili u pogon pustili postrojenje vrijedno nekoliko stotina milijuna eura. Međutim, samo 57 dana kasnije, proglašene su sankcije protiv Bašara al-Asada i INA se povukla iz Sirije. Navedeno postrojenje su eksplozivom uništili pripadnici Islamske države, te tako prouzrokovali INI višemilijunsku štetu.

Međutim, ovaj gubitak ne bi trebao predstavljati veliki problem za INU, imajući u vidu da je, prema pisanjima Expressa, vrijednost nafte na poljima INE u Siriji je oko dvije milijarde američkih dolara.
Sada postaje jasnije otkud toliko zanimanje Hrvatske za događanja u Siriji.