SARAJEVO - Members of the infantry units of the Armed Forces, on 15 October Tuzla went to the NATO mission in Afghanistan, on Wednesday began to perform the tasks of ensuring the NATO base in Helmand province.
"Our soldiers are the first few days were in Denmark, where they completed final preparations. They came to Afghanistan last Thursday. Almost a week ago they were getting used to, and today they started to perform tasks that were previously agreed upon, and that the internal security database" said yesterday Zivko Marjanac, Deputy Minister of Defence.
BH infantry unit, which consists of 45 volunteers, divided into two bases. We learn that our soldiers provide NATO bases "Price" and "Budva". Both NATO bases are the most dangerous in the Afghan province of Helmand.
"Everything is so far gone according to plan and without any problems. Infantry units of the Armed Forces is divided and they will not leave the NATO base, so that our soldiers will not see each other until the end of the rotation for six months," said Marjanac.
According to information available to the Ministry of Defence, in which the database will be our soldiers are very well secured.
"It's huge database, with all forms of protection, so that attacks on these bases is almost impossible," said Marjanac.
Infantry units, which will serve in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan is made up of volunteers and will act within the Danish contingent.
Bh peacekeepers will be in two six-month rotation to be stationed in Helmand, one of a total of 34 Afghan provinces, which is located in the southwest of the Asian countries. During his visit to this NATO peacekeeping mission will have a per diem of about 110 euros and a regular salary from the budget of the Ministry of Defence.
Helmand is known as the most dangerous provinces in Afghanistan, and even 30 percent of its territory controlled by the Taliban.
This part of Afghanistan is well known for its production of opium. Full Afghanistan supplies more than 90 percent of world demand for opium. Only the province of Helmand, which has an area slightly larger than Bosnia, and has about 1.4 million inhabitants, account for 42 percent of world opium production.
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