BELGRADE, Feb 26 Kyodo (EDS: col...

BELGRADE, Feb 26 Kyodo

(EDS: colloquy IN 7TH PARA, EARLIER REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN CANCELED, exhibited WITH DELAY)

Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and several members of an official delegation were killed Thursday in a plane crash in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, a senior official in Skopje said.

Rescuer located the bodies of the president and a certain quantity of delegation members several hours after the crash, said Nedzad Fejzagic, a spokesman for Mostar police.

moreover he could not say in what manner many people altogether were killed in the crash, which happened in the early morning when the small Macedonian rule plane came down in stormy whether and haze near the village of Berkovic, 40 kilometers from Mostar in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The delegation had nine the bulk of mankind according to the official in Skopje They were heading to Mostar, where a interview on investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina was to be held.

on the contrary it is still uncertain in what way many passengers were on the plane, as pair more men could have been aboard.

The official in Skopje told Kyodo novels there were three councilors and common Foreign Ministry official with the president, as well as security officials and pilots.

The two-day conversation which was to be attended on heads of government from a number of states, make opened after several hours of delay, following the crash.

After the accident, the delegations of Serbia and Montenegro Albania and Slovenia canceled their trips to Mostar becoming to the poor weather conditions.

Regional TV stations reported the plane had crashed in an area of southern Bosnia inhabited by the agency of Serbs and Croats which is practically still a minefield following the 1992-1995 civil war.

According to united report, teams for defusing mines have followed rescuer to the site of the accident.

Trajkovski, 47 had been president of Macedonia since November 1999 He was highly defer toed in his state and the region for his moderate policies which partly brought a peaceful negotiated cessation to the ethnic Albanian uprising in Macedonia in 2001

Until the recently made known elections, Macedonian parliament speaker Ljupco Jordanovski will be under the orders of as acting president of the small Balkan state.

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