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Ahead of Annan's Balkans trip, UN agency chief reports on depleted uranium in area

14 November 2002
As United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan prepares to travel to the Balkans later this week, the senior UN environment official has reported to him on the presence of depleted uranium (DU) in the region.

UN environment agency assessing depleted uranium sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina

15 October 2002
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is visiting a dozen sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina that may have been targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium (DU) during the conflict which engulfed the country in the 1990s, the agency announced today.