New Mine Clearing Project To Be Launched On Hungarian Side Of Border With Croatia
- 28 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
A new mine clearing operation will be launched as part of a Hungarian- Croatian mine clearing project along the common border’s Hungarian side with EU funding, a local senior police officer of Baranya county said. The project is to follow up a joint mine clearing operation conducted along a 80km stretch to a depth of 50m between the Drava and the Danube rivers between 2011 and 2013, Ádám Kalmár told MTI.
In that operation 31 explosive devices were removed on the Hungarian side among those laid along the border area during the Yugoslav war in the first half of the 1990s.
The current project on the Hungarian side aims to detect and clear any abandoned explosive and other devices in an about 3.4sqm area of the villages of Old, Kölked and Udvar, Kalmár, department head of Baranya police, said, adding that bids have been invited for carrying out the project on the Hungarian side under public procurement by the spring of 2018.
The European Union has provided 3.5 million forints for the current Hungarian-Croatian mine clearing project, 35.5 percent of which is available for operations on the Hungarian side, said Kalmár.
Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.
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