SARAJEVO, Jan 10 (AFP) - Bosnia's central government urged NATO Wednesday to provide more information on the depleted uranium munitions it used during its intervention in the country, Bosnian radio reported.

The council of ministers made up of representatives of the country's two entities -- the Serbs' Republika Srpska (RS) and the Muslim-Croat Federation -- made the plea as countries providing peacekeeping troops in the Balkans voiced concern at possible links between the use of uranium and cancer cases among mission veterans.

The council also decided to set up a team to deal with the issue, the radio said.

The team would be made up of health and environment ministers from both entities, and their deputies.

Earlier Wednesday, German peacekeepers said they had detected a "certain" level of radiation emitted by munitions found near Sarajevo and believed to have been fired during NATO air strikes, but could not confirm the presence of depleted uranium.

A team from the German contingent serving with the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) on Tuesday tested a container with some 150 shells which had been collected from the yard of a former ammunition factory in Hadzici, 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of Sarajevo, a spokesman told AFP.

"A certain level of radiation was detected in a 50 centimetre (20 inch) circle around the box," said the spokesman, who refused to give his name.

"Although the detected level of radiation was not dangerous, the area has been sealed off," he added.

The team has requested the German government to send "more sophisticated equipment" needed for the "precise tests to detect the level and origin of radiation," he said.

The factory was one of the targets of the NATO air campaign against Bosnian Serbs in summer 1995.

The United States admitted firing more than 10,000 depleted uranium projectiles during NATO's intervention in Bosnia in 1994-95 and 31,000 in Kosovo in 1999.

NATO announced Wednesday it would set up a special committee to examine possible links between the uranium rounds and reported deaths from cancer among NATO peacekeepers who served in Bosnia and Kosovo.