(SARAJEVO) - The EU and a UN agency said Wednesday they have donated three million euros (4.4 million dollars) for the control and reduction of small arms and ammunition left over from the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

The project's goal is "to decrease the threat posed to human security by the large and uncontrolled presence of small arms, light weapons and ammunition in the country," said Christine McNab, a representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bosnia.

There are some 100,000 pieces of small arms and between 25,000 and 30,000 tonnes of ammunition surplus to military requirements, she added.

The European Union coughed up the lion's share at 2.7 million euros, with the remainder given by the UNDP, which is to implement the project over the next 18 months.

Since the 1992-95 war, Bosnia has been made up of two semi-independent entities -- the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serb-run Republika Srpska. Each has its own parliament, government, army and police force.

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