NATO cluster bombs to be cleared
Clearing the ground in Bujanovac, Preševo and Kuršumlija in southern Serbia of cluster bombs left by the 1999 NATO bombing should start in April.
Wednesday, 23.03.2011.
14:17
Clearing the ground in Bujanovac, Presevo and Kursumlija in southern Serbia of cluster bombs left by the 1999 NATO bombing should start in April. The project will be financed by a Norwegian donation worth EUR 3.4mn. NATO cluster bombs to be cleared A memorandum of understanding between the Serbian government center for mine clearance and the Norwegian organization People's Aid is being prepared, reads a release from the demining center made available to reporters on Wednesday at the Serbian Interior Ministry. The humanitarian demining project in these municipalities will last three years. According to the data of the center, Bujanovac and Presevo have 1,389,900 square meters contaminated with different types of mines, and the area will be investigated further to determine precise information. It has also been determined that 290 sites, located in 16 Serbian municipalities and covering a total of 14,920,000 square meters, are contaminated with cluster bombs from the NATO bombing. 110 more locations, 6,151,000 square meters in total, are suspected of containing cluster bombs, but the areas need to be investigated more thoroughly. The 1999 attacks of the western military alliance left Serbia with 64 aerial bombs and rockets at 44 locations, some buried as deep as 20 meters in the ground and some lying in the Sava and Danube riverbeds. Based on information received from citizens, the Interior Ministry's Emergency Situations Sector suspects that another 50 bombs and rockets are hidden at several dozen locations which are yet to be fully searched.
NATO cluster bombs to be cleared
A memorandum of understanding between the Serbian government center for mine clearance and the Norwegian organization People's Aid is being prepared, reads a release from the demining center made available to reporters on Wednesday at the Serbian Interior Ministry.The humanitarian demining project in these municipalities will last three years.
According to the data of the center, Bujanovac and Preševo have 1,389,900 square meters contaminated with different types of mines, and the area will be investigated further to determine precise information.
It has also been determined that 290 sites, located in 16 Serbian municipalities and covering a total of 14,920,000 square meters, are contaminated with cluster bombs from the NATO bombing.
110 more locations, 6,151,000 square meters in total, are suspected of containing cluster bombs, but the areas need to be investigated more thoroughly.
The 1999 attacks of the western military alliance left Serbia with 64 aerial bombs and rockets at 44 locations, some buried as deep as 20 meters in the ground and some lying in the Sava and Danube riverbeds.
Based on information received from citizens, the Interior Ministry's Emergency Situations Sector suspects that another 50 bombs and rockets are hidden at several dozen locations which are yet to be fully searched.
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