New probe launched into crash that killed Macedonian leader

An investigative team set up to determine the facts surrounding the death of Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has began to work.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 24.01.2013.

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SARAJEVO An investigative team set up to determine the facts surrounding the death of Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has began to work. Trajkovski died in a plane crash in 2004 near Mostar, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. New probe launched into crash that killed Macedonian leader Minister of Communications and Transport of Bosnia-Herzegovina Damir Hadzic previously signed a decision on the formation of the investigative team. "The team is made up of 15 members divided into five committees, and they have already begun to work," said a ministerial adviser and team leader Omer Kulic. Kulic told Fena news agency that representatives and experts from four countries, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia, were taking part in the commission, while their "permanent consultant" comes from the U.S. consulate. Kulic also revealed that so far contacts had been made "with all members, specifying concrete objectives and methodology". According to the established methodology, the five committees will work independently, to later meet and prepare a joint report. The new investigation into the deadly crash was opened in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the Macedonian government started proceedings into the case, and given that a new Macedonian expert team had in the meanwhile gathered enough evidence to warrant a reopening of the probe. The plane in which Boris Trajkovski traveled crashed on February 26, 2004, close to Rotimlje, near Mostar. Beside Trajkovski, the crash also killed his advisors Dimka Ilkova-Boskovic and Risto Blazevski, associate Anita Krista-Lozanska, Mile Krstevski from Macedonia's MUP, security officers Boris Verinov and Aco Bozinovski, and two pilots. The original investigation concluded that the plane crashed due to pilot error and bad weather conditions. Macedonian experts, however, claim to have evidence that Trajkovski did not die as a consequence of an accident, but that he was killed when his plane was "brought down". (Beta, file) Tanjug

New probe launched into crash that killed Macedonian leader

Minister of Communications and Transport of Bosnia-Herzegovina Damir Hadžić previously signed a decision on the formation of the investigative team.

"The team is made up of 15 members divided into five committees, and they have already begun to work," said a ministerial adviser and team leader Omer Kulić.

Kulić told Fena news agency that representatives and experts from four countries, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia, were taking part in the commission, while their "permanent consultant" comes from the U.S. consulate.

Kulić also revealed that so far contacts had been made "with all members, specifying concrete objectives and methodology". According to the established methodology, the five committees will work independently, to later meet and prepare a joint report.

The new investigation into the deadly crash was opened in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the Macedonian government started proceedings into the case, and given that a new Macedonian expert team had in the meanwhile gathered enough evidence to warrant a reopening of the probe.

The plane in which Boris Trajkovski traveled crashed on February 26, 2004, close to Rotimlje, near Mostar.

Beside Trajkovski, the crash also killed his advisors Dimka Ilkova-Boskovic and Risto Blazevski, associate Anita Krista-Lozanska, Mile Krstevski from Macedonia's MUP, security officers Boris Verinov and Aco Bozinovski, and two pilots.

The original investigation concluded that the plane crashed due to pilot error and bad weather conditions.

Macedonian experts, however, claim to have evidence that Trajkovski did not die as a consequence of an accident, but that he was killed when his plane was "brought down".

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