Yet, the topic should not be delayed. After the U.S.A. had given up more or less without much fuss being the solitary actor for the role of Head Commander yesterday, the American delegation raised its hand again before the talks this morning and reminded that NATO was not a club that one could join just like that. Meanwhile, diplomat sources at the meeting indicated that the date for the retraction of IFOR troops from Bosnia was not absolutely fixed to be at the end of this year. Moving the date was at least being considered. More gases escape after train accident After the chemical accident in Schoenebck near Magdeburg small amounts of highly poisonous vinyl chloride were still escaping from the capsized tank wagons this morning.
Experts are still cooling the wagons with water, the fire brigade reports.
Fire brigade and the Transportation Ministry of Saxony-Anhalt have raised serious accusations against German Railways. The company's attitude was not very helpful after the accident. It took one hour for a representative to turn up at the site of the accident after the explosion Saturday night. Until then, helpers had no information about what the tanks contained. Therefore no-one knew initially how to fight the fire efficiently.