HC Deb 09 December 1992 vol 215 c672W
Mr. Wareing

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many United Nations humanitarian aid convoys have travelled to their destinations in Bosnia-Herzegovina from(a) Belgrade, (b) Split and (c) by air from other points of departure.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answer 7 December 1992]: Exact figures for how many convoys have travelled to their destinations in Bosnia-Herzegovina from various points of departure are not available from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at present. However, there are 79 UNHCR trucks based at Belgrade with a capacity of 1,140 tonnes and 10 at Split with a capacity of 70 tonnes. A further 228 trucks with 2,343 tonnes capacity are based elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. As of December, a total of 1,840 relief flights had been made, delivering 21,106 tonnes of humanitarian relief; all of these were to Sarajevo.

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