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CIA director visits BiH to discuss fight against terrorism

Xinhua, April 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

John Brennan, chief of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), on Friday talked with senior officials of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) over the fight against terrorism in an unannounced visit.

Brennan arrived in Sarajevo from Saudi Arabia, where he met senior officials on coordination to deal with conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

The CIA director met senior BiH officials, including members of Presidency, BiH Security Minister Dragan Mektic as well as top intelligence officials, local media reported.

The talks focused on prosecution of BiH citizens fighting in foreign battlefields, surplus of weapons in BiH and organized crimes.

"We informed Brennan about BiH citizens fighting in foreign countries. We also spoke about exchange of intelligence, coordination between different security agencies in BiH as well as cooperation between CIA and Intelligence and Security Agency (OSA) of BiH," said Aljosa Campara, Minister of Internal Affairs of Federation of BiH (FBiH), an entity of BiH.

Campara, also a member of Task Force for Combating Terrorism in BiH, described the meeting with Brennan as "productive".

Some 130 BiH citizens went to foreign battlefields including Syria and Iraq, with 45 of them were killed and 50 others back in BiH, according to BiH Security Ministry.

Mektic during the meeting proposed to establish a new body to fight against terrorism in the Western Balkan region, according to local reports. Enditem