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SARAJEVO, July 26 (FENA) - The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously adopted today, at an extraordinary telephone session, the Decision on supplementing the Decision on requesting international assistance for protection and rescue in firefighting, proposed by the Ministry of Security of BiH.
By supplementing the Decision, international support in firefighting was requested in the form of firefighting forces, means and aircraft for firefighting from countries with which Bosnia and Herzegovina has signed agreements and memoranda on cooperation in protection and rescue, and aircrafts through the procedures of the Mechanism for Civil Protection of the European Union ( EU).
In this way, the BiH Council of Ministers supplemented last week's decision by which it requested the Republic of Croatia for international assistance in the form of sending aircraft (Canadairs) with crew to help extinguish fires in BiH.
The search for wider international support in extinguishing fires in BiH from the ground and from the air followed the escalation of fires in BiH, especially in the area of Posušje municipality – Blidinje National Park and the area of Sutjeska Nature Park.
Fires in Bosnia and Herzegovina are being extinguished from the air by helicopters of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Helicopter Service of the Republika Srpska and the Air Force of the Republic of Croatia.
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