vLKAN CRISIS: Situation Report
Bosnia's Prime Minister hasew route to deliver UN relief supplies from the port of Split, involving rail and road transportation. Numerous problems of its own have not prevented Croatia from looking beyond the end of UN peacekeeping efforts there and mappingarger role lor itself in the conflict in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
New Winter Relief Bosnia's Prime Minister has asked lhai the UNoad andfrom Split, via Mostar. to deliver humanitarian aid to central'
Bosnia, including Sarajevo. Bosnian transportation officials maintain that the year-round hard-surface road from Split to Mostar is open and that the railway from Mostar to Sarajevo is either operableasilyecent assessment notes that two locomotives, each capable of pulling upons, and more than enough railcars are available in Sarajevo for immediate use;mall loading ramp reportedly needs to be constructed at Rastani. north of Mostar, for the route to be opened. The report also suggests that the line can be extended to Zenica, Doboj. and Tuzla in three
Comment: If repairs can be made to the rail line and bridges and tunnels can be kept open, the route could easily support the shipment of more thanons of aid per day that the UN estimates is needed in the area. Weather would have little impact, and turnaround times for the UN trucks currently supplying Sarajevo would be cut in half. Security couldroblem, however, at Mostar and along the rail portion of the route, where significant fighting has occurred in the past several nonths^
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