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🧵 Food convoys intended for Srebrenica will probably not set off before Tuesday, due to the existing Serb blockade on Mondays and Fridays.

Today, seven UN convoys remained blocked at Serb checkpoints because the Serbs, just one day after signing it, seem to have retracted their agreement to the free passing of food stuffs and aid.

The permission for the free movement of convoys was given at the meeting of Serb leaders with the UN commander for Bosnia and the head of the UN’s civil sector for the former Yugoslavia.

One UNPROFOR representative declared: “Yesterday the commitment was given, so this is disappointing.”

Food convoys for the eastern enclave of Goražde will probably not be able to set off before Tuesday, due to the existing Serb blockade on Mondays and Fridays. The first British convoy which headed for Goražde with 1,000 litres of petrol, portions of food and two tractors…

…was stopped at the Serb checkpoint near Kiseljak. The Dutch convoy which was supposed to leave to deliver blood plasma and medicinal equipment to the field hospital in Potočari in the Srebrenica enclave, was stopped at the so-called Yellow Bridge.

UNHCR representative @krisjanowski claims, “It has been promised to us that the convoys will get moving …but we do not know if the usual curfew on Mondays applies to this.”

🧵 The Union of Municipal Citizens Association of the Bosnian Drina Valley is addressing the international and Bosnian community with a demand for immediate measures to defend human life and health from the onslaught of aggressors…

… as well as the inhumane conditions in which, for more than two years, the populations of Srebrenica, Žepa and Goražde have been living.

The Union is seeking a renewal of “Operation Parachute” and the urgent airdrop of textbooks and other school items for primary and secondary school students, as well as the delivery of food, medicines, and supplies for personal and general hygiene.

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