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                     B o s N e w s  - Feb. 06, 1995

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Binding arbitration set up between Bosno-Croats



In Germany, Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Gov't agreed to binding
arbitration to decide how to smooth over growing differences in
their federation. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Richard
Holbrooke said Washington was pleased with the new accord, which
calls for an arbitrator to be appointed by mutual agreement.
However, the agreement does not specify any way of enforcing the
arbitrator's decisions.



Americans on the island of Brac



A U.S. military team of 20 has set up operations on the island
of Brac in the Adriatic Sea, to gather intelligence on
neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. They are accompanied by
plainclothes Croatian guardsmen, mainly keep to themselves,
departing each morning by bus to an undisclosed location. Nearby
small airport is blockaded by Croatian military police and armed
guards turn back the curious. The mission is named "Lofty View."

It's "an operation to map and survey primary and secondary lines
of communication in Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Cmdr. Ron Morse, a
spokesman for the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.

The U.S. trade journal Aviation Week & Space Technology reported
the CIA was launchingmanned and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft
from Brac.

A private U.S. consultant, Military Professional Resources Inc.,
has been contracted to help train Croatia's army, according to
the US State Department.



Nationalist Serb and Croat reps meet



Some analysts speculate that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
and Serbia's Milosevic have found common ground for their
nationalistic goals. Allegedly Milosevic would give up some Serb
claims in Croatia and Bosnia in exchange for a division of
Bosnia between Serbia and Croatia.

Tudjman would relinquish claims on part of Serb-held Croatia
Serbia in exchange for Milosevic's recognition of independent
Croatia.

The biggest loser would be Bosnian gov't.

"We are reaching the crucial phase of the ex-Yugoslavia
crisis... It seems like a race against time. Come spring,
everything might be too late." said independent Belgrade
political analyst Djordje Stanisic.

"All Serbs should prepare for the final battle," nationalist
Bosnian Serb general Slavko Lisica told local media. "The big
war is coming."



Settling Kosovo



Serbia is offering a series of incentives to persuade refugees
from the war in Bosnia to resettle in the predominately Albanian
province of Kosovo, including a new housing project, housing
subsidies, farm land and other benefits.

Albanians currently make up 90 percent of the population, while
Serbs continue to migrate from Kosovo, driven out by a battered
state-run economy and a tense political conflict.

"They told us they wanted to move Serbs to Kosovo. They made us
big promises," said Jokic, a Serb from the town of Vlasenica in
northeast Bosnia.



Bosnian Serb-Croat Military Talks



U.N. officials said on Saturday nationalist Bosnian Serb
commanders have held direct talks with Bosnian Croat officers.
The U.N. claimed this to be a ``a major breakthrough'' in
ceasefire discussions held on Friday between Serb and Croat army
officers. Bosnian Army officers were absent.

Bosnian Croat Defence Council (HVO) generals agreed with
nationalist Bosnian Serb military leaders in a meeting in the
central town of Gornji Vakuf on mapping confrontation lines
between Kupres in central Bosnia. According to a statement
released by the United Nations Protection Force. The meeting was
``conducted in a positive and constructive manner,'' said the
U.N. statement issued from Gornji Vakuf.

The Bosnian army officers boycotted the regional ceasefire
commission talks because they object to the presence of Serb
liason officers on territory under their control, accusing the
U.N. of failing to properly consult them about the issue.

``The HVO and the BSA might be looking at ways to reach a
separate deal,'' said on U.N. source.



Gen. Delic about the readiness of Bosnian Army  etc.



``Many people expected that, after the ceasefire was signed, the
army of Bosnia-Herzegovina would become passive. Probably the
aggressor (Serbs) expected the same and that is one of the
reasons the aggressor signed the agreement,'' General Rasim
Delic, chief of the Bosnian Army.

``We are taking measures for further improvement and
strengthening of the army with one goal, which is if there is no
solution in these four months, now three months of the
ceasefire, then the army will make one on the battlefield,''
Delic said.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Coward, a United Nations peacekeeping
spokesman in Sarajevo, said last week the U.N. had noted
significant military activity in central Bosnia in recent weeks
as the government army reorganised.

Source Reuter 95-02-05





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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: C2AN1350
Date: 02/06/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)
          Time: 07:22pm /\To: ALL
                 (Read 4 times) Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE



Bosnian Croat and Muslim leaders reaffirmed their federation
yesterday, and agreed to submit any disputes to an arbitrator.
At a meeting in Munich, Germany, arranged by U.S. Assistant
Sectretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke in the midst of a
security conference also attended by Secretary of Defense
William J. Perry, the two agreed on a nine-point plan for the
federation's implementation, moving beyond an agreement that
largely exists on paper. The two also agreed to accept help from
constitutional experts and a retired U.S. Army officer. A
standing commission will be formed in Sarajevo to monitor
developments. Pery also met with Croatian Government Defense
Minister Gojko Susak, and discussions of Croatia's plan to expel
U.N. peacekeepers was held.



Just before dusk Friday, 15 Serbian helicopters, appearantly on
a re-supply mission, crossed from Serbia into Bosnia. Dutch
observers saw the helicopters fly west from Serbia, while based
near Srebrenica. It occurred at the same time U.N. observers
were barred from access to Serbian airfields near the border and
from radar equipment there. Although other helicopter flights
have been seen, this is the first time that this many were seen
in formation. The flight suggests that the Yugoslav Army is
still heaviliy involved in the Bosnian war, that Serbain
President Slobodan Milosevic is still providing assistance even
though he has said he has stopped, and that N.A.T.O. "no-fly
zone" enforcement remains less than complete. (Roger Cohen and
Craig R. Whitney/N.Y.T.)





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OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 27, 7 February 1995



DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRUSSELS AND WASHINGTON OVER YUGOSLAV
SUMMIT. Nasa Borba reports on 7 February that EU foreign
ministers the previous day agreed in Brussels to endorse the
French proposal for yet another major international gathering to
deal with the ongoing crisis in the former Yugoslavia. Guests
would include Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, his Croatian
counterpart, Franjo Tudjman, and Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic.
Politika writes that Izetbegovic would be invited only in his
capacity as leader of the Bosnian Muslims, however, not as the
president of an internationally recognized state. The
pro-Milosevic daily also notes approvingly that one of the goals
of the meeting, which would aim at no less than a global
solution to the former Yugoslavia's problems, would be to deepen
the isolation of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Reuters
reports, however, that US Secretary of State Warren Christopher
continues to be skeptical about such a gathering. He warns
against having too great expectations and stresses that such a
meeting must be very carefully prepared. -- Patrick Moore, OMRI,
Inc.



OTHER NEWS FROM THE YUGOSLAV WAR ZONE. The BBC's Croatian
Service on 7 February quoted US Assistant Secretary of State
Richard Holbrooke as saying that further talks with the Bosnian
Serbs are pointless unless they first accept the current peace
plan. Holbrooke is regarded as the architect of recent US policy
stressing the need for direct contacts with Karadzic's
headquarters at Pale. Meanwhile in Belgrade, Politika deals with
official Serbia's response to Dutch UNPROFOR reports from 3
February that up to 20 helicopters have flown missions from
Serbia to eastern Bosnia. The daily quotes the rump Yugoslav
General Staff as denying that it has any military presence
beyond its own borders. Finally, from the Croatian battle front,
Vjensik quotes UNPROFOR sources as saying that 5 February
witnessed a record number of violations--168 in all--of the
cease-fire agreement between Croatia and its rebel Serbs.--
Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



CROATIAN AGRARIAN LEADER DIES. Croatian Radio on 6 February
announced the death the previous day following a long illness of
Drago Stipac (74), the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party
(HSS). Amid the collapse of communism, Stipac was instrumental
in reviving the HSS, which was the most important political
party in Croatia between the two world wars. He never achieved
his dream of returning the HSS to the center stage of political
life, but it did acquire a strong following in some rural areas
and plays a role in local and regional government there. Stipac
and his party were also prominent on the fragmented political
opposition scene. A lifelong supporter of the HSS who was jailed
by both the fascists and the communists for his beliefs, Stipac
was also a past president of the Croatian Society of Political
Prisoners. -- Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



PRESS CAMPAIGN FOR SERBIAN COLONIZATION OF KOSOVO. The Serbian
government-controlled daily Borba has launched a media campaign
to support a government program offering potential Serbian
settlers interest-free credits to build houses in Kosovo. The
paper carried two articles on 7 February calling for more
Serbian settlements in Kosovo. One article reported about an
economist from Pristina who wrote a letter to Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic offering to exchange his house in Serbia
proper for one in Kosovo and to move back. The other, headlined
"Kosovo Is Serbian," dealt with Radmilo Bogdanovic, president of
the Serbian parliament Security Committee and a former interior
minister. Bogdanovic has tried to convince Serbs to settle in
Kosovo, saying that "the situation of public order, peace, and
personal security in Kosmet (Kosovo-Metohija) is not always
satisfactory . . . but it is safer, for example, than in
Belgrade or Kragujevac." Independent Nasa Borba on 7 February
raises doubts about the program, arguing that it does not make
sense to settle people to a region that already is densely
populated and where most industry has stopped working. -- Fabian
Schmidt, OMRI, Inc.



RUSSIAN DELEGATION VISITS RUMP YUGOSLAVIA. A Russian delegation
headed by Deputy Premier Oleg Davydov visited the rump
Yugoslavia on 6 February, state-controlled Borba reported the
next day. Davydov met with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic
and the prime ministers of Serbia and Montenegro to discuss
economic relations between rump Yugoslavia and Russia and the
international sanctions against Belgrade. The delegation
supported the idea of lifting the sanctions, observing that the
international community's hesitation to do so "imperils peace
and security on the wider European scene." -- Stan Markotich,
OMRI, Inc.



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                     B o s N e w s  - Feb. 08, 1995

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In NW Bosnia-Herzegovina, the anti-government leader, Fikret
Abdic, is demanding 50% all aid shipments to Bihac, while U.N.
has given 20% for his 30,000 supporters.

``The food situation in Bihac is critical... At the moment, only
the hospital and cases of utmost priority are being given
food.''said Alemka Lisinski, UNHCR representative.

About 100 people protested outside the U.N.offices in Bihac on
Monday. ``Some of them said they haven't eaten for days,''
Lisinski said.

The top U.N. official for former Yugoslavia, Yasushi Akashi,
toured central Bosnia and proposed renewal of the four-month
truce, due to expire on May 1: ``That would give time and
opportunity ... to deepen your cooperation and bring more
international assistance.''



The first civilian traffic for seven months crossed Sarajevo
airport on Monday. According to the U.N. sources 22 Serb cars
drove from Ilidza to Lukavica, two suburbs controlled by
nationalist Bosnian Serbs. ``It's a promising step forward,''
U.N. spokesman Gary Coward said. Opening the Ilidza to Lukavica
route means the Serbs could make a journey in 30 minutes which
has previously taken all day.

Sarajevo police chief Enes Bezdrop the Bosnian Serbs also agreed
to let civilian buses run between Sarajevo and Visoko, northwest
of the city, from Tuesday.

Source Reuter 95-02-06



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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: C2BQ3115
Date: 02/07/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)
          Time: 09:51pm \/To: ALL
                 (Read 13 times) Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE



A road out of Sarajevo opened yesterday for the first time in
seven months, as did a road linking two Serbian suberbs.
Hundreds used the road to shop for less expensive and more
plentiful goods in the suberbs or visit relatives, but further
travel was restricted unless people had proper paperwork. One
route lets Serbs move between two suberbs, and the other crosses
the airport into two Bosnian Government held suberbs and leads
into central Bosnia and out of the country. Since they
intersect, Serbs and Muslims used them in alternating two hour
periods during daylight only. A third route, to the northwest
through Vogosca, was to open today.



580 shells landed around Velika Kladusa in the 24 hours that
ended Monday morning. Fighting as since decreased. (A.P./N.Y.T.)



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OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 28, 8 February 1995



UN REPORTS 62 HELICOPTER FLIGHTS FROM SERBIA INTO BOSNIA. The
New York Times on 8 February quotes UN spokesmen as saying that
during the first four days of the month, 62 helicopter sorties
took place apparently from bases in Serbia to Srebrenica, in
eastern Bosnia, where Bosnian Serbs have stepped up attacks in
recent weeks. Some of the helicopters were reported to have
flown "in military formation." The U.S. is demanding a UN
investigation and wants to know why UN monitors were denied
access to Serbian airfields at Surcin and elsewhere during that
time. If it can be proved that the flights indeed came from
Serbia, economic sanctions could automatically be reimposed on
that country. Meanwhile, Vjesnik reports UN sources in Croatia
as saying the number of flights of airplanes and helicopters
from the Krajina Serb base at Udbina is increasing. -- Patrick
Moore, OMRI, Inc.



YET ANOTHER CHANGE IN U.S. BOSNIAN POLICY. The Clinton
administration has apparently done another flip-flop on Bosnia,
The New York Times reports on 8 February. During December and
January, Washington cultivated direct contacts with the Bosnian
Serbs at Pale and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke
was said to be the "architect" of that policy. But after failing
to persuade Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to cooperate in
reaching a settlement, Holbrooke is now quoted as saying that
"there is no point in shuttling up the hill from Sarajevo to
Pale to listen to the kind of crap which is dished out by
Karadzic."-- Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



MILOSEVIC REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE CROATIA AND BOSNIA. AFP reported
on 7 February that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has
rejected French and EU calls for a Yugoslav-area summit, calling
it "a waste of precious time." He also ruled out Belgrade's
recognition of Croatia and Bosnia, saying such a move "would
prejudge fundamental solutions," Tanjug reported. Reuters quoted
rump Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic as saying
that such recognition was "out of the question." Croatian and
Bosnian officials have long called for Serbia to recognize them
in their internationally valid frontiers as proof that Belgrade
has given up on plans to carve out a Greater Serbia at its
neighbors' expense. Hina cites Croatian Foreign Minister Mate
Granic as noting that President Franjo Tudjman would attend a
summit "provided the meeting is organized and thoroughly
prepared." He also pointed out the connection between holding a
summit and the participants' recognition of one another's
frontiers. -- Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



BELGRADE, MOSCOW SIGN TRADE ACCORD. Tanjug on 7 February
reported that Russian Deputy Premier Oleg Davydov and rump
Yugoslav authorities signed a bilateral trade accord paving the
way for Russian deliveries of kerosene and gas to the rump
Yugoslavia until 2010. Davydov was on an official visit to the
Serbian capital. Reuters quotes him as saying Russia will
deliver kerosene even if the UN Sanctions Committee, monitoring
the international embargo against Belgrade, were to signal its
disapproval. "Should the UN Sanctions Committee fail to accept
our decision, the only way out for us would be to leave the
committee, or find a way of carrying out those deliveries," he
commented. -- Stan Markotich, OMRI, Inc.





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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: C2CL1712
Date: 02/08/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)
          Time: 05:28pm \/To: ALL
                 (Read 5 times) Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE



U.N. Undersecretary General Chinmaya Gharekhan told the U.N.
Security Council yesterday that ground observers had seen 62
helicopters from last Wednesday to Saturday north of Srebrenica.
The Serbian helicopters are believed to have come from airfields
near Surcin, but it was not possible to establish the point of
take-off since U.N. obsevers were barred from radar sites near
the area last week by Serbian forces.



The U.S. has announced that it is ending official contacts with
the Bosnian Serbs political leader, Radovan Karadzic, and is
associates after their continuing refusal to accept a peace
proposal. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke
said Monday "there is no point" in shuttling up the hill from
Sarajevo to Pale [where Bosnian Serbs have their headquarters]
to listen to the kind of crap which is dished out by Karadzic."
(Barbara Crossette/N.Y.T.)



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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: C2DR1786
Date: 02/09/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)
          Time: 10:29pm \/To: ALL
                 (Read 12 times) Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE



After having been denied access to radar equipment at airfields
by Serbian forces last week while 62 helicopters crossed the
border, acess was restored on Sunday, but withdrawn again
Monday. The U.N. has asked the chief monitor, Tauno Nieminen of
Finland, to hold talks with Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
about the flights. (Barbara Crossette/N.Y.T.)



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OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 29,  9 February 1995



MORE ON SERBIAN MILITARY HELP FOR BOSNIAN SERBS. Newsday reports
on 9 February that U.S. officials are continuing to show great
concern over UN accounts of some 62 military helicopter flights
from Serbia to Bosnian Serb forces at Srebrenica last week. The
newspaper also notes that Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic
has charged that Serbia recently sent some 90 tanks and 8,000
"volunteers" to help its beleaguered allies. Newsday also
reports on the French proposal for an international conference
on the Yugoslav crisis, which has drawn mixed responses from
around the globe. One French diplomat said in its defense: "If
not this, what else can we propose?" Meanwhile, Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic is quoted in the Belgrade dailies as
saying that his side will not be bound by any decisions of the
conference if he is not invited. French officials deliberately
left him off the guest list in a move to increase his isolation
because of his continued refusal to accept the current peace
plan. -- Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



SARAJEVO TO REOPEN RAILWAY LINKS. The BBC's Serbian Service
reports on 9 February that railway transport has restarted in
the Bosnian capital for the first time in almost three years. A
German locomotive pulled two cars into the city the previous
day, but plans are under way to reopen soon the key route
running south to Mostar and on to Ploce on the Adriatic.
Elsewhere, UN spokesmen reported alarm at what they said was an
increase of fighting in the Bihac area. Agencies quoted them as
calling troop movements of hundreds of Krajina Serbs "alarming."
-Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



SERBIAN AUTHORITIES CRACK DOWN ON STUDIO B. Nasa Borba on 9
February reports that the independent Belgrade-based Studio B,
which has both radio and television broadcast facilities, may
become the latest victim in the Serbian government's crackdown
on the free media. The daily notes that the same pattern is
evident as in other recent cases, including that of the
independent daily Borba (reincorporated last month as Nasa
Borba). The authorities on 8 February challenged Studio B's
legal status or incorporation in what appears to be the first
step in a takeover bid. Studio B director Dragan Kojadinovic
remarked that his company may exist for no more than 20 days. --
Stan Markotich, OMRI, Inc.

[As of 1200 CET]

Compiled by Victor Gomez



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FRONTLINES, Bosnia and Herzegovina



        The truce halted fighting across most of Bosnia except
for the northwest Bihac enclave where heavy shelling continued
unabated, UN spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Coward said.
  UN monitors in the enclave counted 630 artillery, mortar or
tank rounds since Sunday evening, six times the daily average
when no offensives are in motion.        According to the
Chairman of the Bosnian Town Council, Mr Kabiljagic, the
humanitarian situation in the Bihac pocket is on the verge of a
catastrophe. According to the latest statistics from Bihac
hospital, 47 people have died in the last two months, most of
these being children. The hospital is currently accommodating
around 2,000 wounded and sick patients, with shortages of food
and medicine. A UNHCR spokesperson in Sarajevo confirmed the
grim situation in Bihac, adding that the town needs
approximately two thousand tons of food per month.



Bosnia -- Recognition -- Arms Embargo SARAJEVO, Bosnia and
Herzegovina



        Bosnia would be willing to recognize Serbia and
Montenegro in return for its recognition of Bosnia, Prime
Minister Haris Silajdzic said Wednesday.        Yugoslav Foreign
Minister Vladislav Jovanovic said during a visit to Jerusalem
that mutual recignition is out of the question.        "We do
not see any any reason for recognition until a political
solution has been reached," he was quoted as saying.
Leader of separatist Serbs Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday said he
favored mutual recognition -- as long as the Serb ministates in
Bosnia and Croatia also were recognized, a condition that Bosnia
and Croatia reject.

        Haris Silajdzic also warned Croatia and Serbia not to
ignore his government in peace negotiations. He added that
"whoever tries to make an agreement at our expense should
remember that nothing can be solved without this government now
which is a military and political factor that cannot be
ignored."        The Bosnian premier urged the big powers to
lift the UN arms embargo on the government army if the
separtatist Serbs continue to rebuff appeals to back the peace
deal.        He also said that Bosnian government would only
participate in a peace summit for the former Yugoslavia proposed
by France if the conference reaffirmed support for the Big Power
peace plan.



Summit On "Former Yugoslavia" BRUSSELS, Belgium



        EU foreign ministers unanimously endorsed the French
plan for a special summit on former Yugoslavia bringing together
the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. In a joint statement
they said that plan could pave the way for an "international
conference to deal with all matters relating to the conflict in
the former Yugoslavia."        French Foreign Minister Alain
Juppe told reporters at the end of a one-day meeting it was not
yet decided where or when to hold the conference. The EU
statement said the summit would be in line with the peace plan
drawn up by the so-called Contact Group of the United States,
France, Russia, Britain and Germany.        USA Secretary of
State Warren Christopher said that the "USA position has long
been that a so-called summit meeting...could be useful but only
if it's well-prepared and we've not changed that position."
  He also asserted Radovan Karadzic could not be allowed to
attend a summit unless he accepted the so-called Contact Group
plan. But Karadzic "could certainly attend and participate if he
would agree to the Contact Group plan," Christopher added.
 Meantime in Washington the US Assistant Secretary of State,
Richard Holbrook has announced that the US is not prepared to
continue negotiations with Bosnian Serbs unless they accept the
Contact Groups peace plan.        Separatist Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic said that the summit "could cause no harm but the
question is what will its agenda be. They cannot discuss
anything on our behalf, especially not Alija Izetbegovic."



Meeting Granic -- Ljubijankic; Refugees ZAGREB, Croatia



        Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and his Bosnian
counterpart Irfan Ljubijankic met in Zagreb yesterday. Granic
stated that the meeting was a continuation of the recent Munich
talks which he described as a great step towards establishing
the Bosnian Federation, the implementation of the Washington
Accords and the forging of firm lines between the federation and
Croatia. New rounds of talks are to be held in Zagreb next week.
       From the 1st of April Germany will begin returning
Croatian refugees back to Croatia. Deputy Prime Minister Ivica
Koslovic has expressed concern over this decision. Koslovic will
travel to Germany on the 23rd of this month to discuss this
matter with the parliamentary leaders of the three German states
which are housing most of the Croatian refugees. Germany's
decision however is conditional on the situation in the UNPAs
improving.



Kresimir Zubak Met Akashi MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina



        In Mostar yesterday evening, President of the Bosnian
Federation, Kresimir Zubak met with UN Special Envoy Yashusi
Akashi, on his official visit to the city. Both described the
meeting as productive and successful. Akashi announced that all
agreed that Mostar's problems cannot be solved outside the
Bosnian Federation but only within the federation framework.
Speaking of his visits to Gornji Vakuf, Zenica and Vitez, Akashi
explained that he had noticed improved co-operation between
Croats and Muslims and stated that it was imperative to keep
improving relations between the two.



UN warns On Use Of Air Force ZAGREB, Croatia



        The UN warned rebel Croatian Serbs on Tuesday that NATO
would "inevitably" retaliate with air strikes if they used air
power in fighting in the Bihac enclave of neighbouring Bosnia.
     Czech peacekeepers deployed around Udbiuna saw one
Orao-type jet take off on Wednesday (1st of February) and
Thursday and observed three Galebs taking off on Friday. Three
Gazelle helicopters used the airfield on Saturday.        NATO,
which has the right to enforce the no-fly zone over Bosnia
without prior approval from UN headquarters, said it could not
confirm the UN reports.        The UN military spokesman in
Zagreb, Lieutenant-Colonel Walt Natynczyk said about 600
Croatian Serb soldiers from the breakaway republic of Krajina
were spotted moving into combat zones in the north of Bihac in
the last week of January.



UN Denied Access To Radar In Serbia UNITED NATIONS



        UN spokesman Joe Sills said Wednesday Serbia denied UN
officials access to border radar for four days last week -- the
same period when peacekeepers said they spotted suspicious
helicopter flights in Bosnia.        UN Undersecretary-General
Chinmaya Gharekhan said peacekeepers reported 62 helicopter
flights near the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, between last
Wednesday and Saturday. UN soldiers in Bosnia said they saw 15
to 20 Serbian government helicopters land outside Srebrenica
last Friday, apparently to resupply Bosnian Serb troops.
UN monitors remain blocked from using the radar, which scans the
border area, Sills said.



Separatist Serbs Want UN To Stay KNIN, Croatia



    A Croatian Serb assembly on Wednesday accepted its leaders'
recommendation to suspend trade talks with Croatia until it
changes its decision on the peacekeepers. The assembly also
declared a state of "immediate war danger," giving leaders
authority to order mobilization if necessary without the
assembly's prior approval.        In an effort to prevent war
from spreading to Croatia, the UN Security Council urged Croatia
Tuesday to reconsider its order for 12,000 UN peacekeepers to
leave after their mandate expires March 31.

Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic said the government won't
reverse its decision on the peacekeepers.

Rebel Serbs in Bosnia have pledged to support Croatia's Serbs in
the event of renewed warfare. Croatian Serbs are actively
helping their brethren across the border in the northwestern
Bosnian region of Bihac.



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Serbs end talks with Croatian government

By Roger Cohen, c.1995 N.Y. Times News Service



    TRAVNIK, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- In another sign that a wider
Balkan war could develop in the spring, the Serbs holding close
to one-third of Croatia have cut off talks with the Croatian
government, balked on parts of an economic accord, and formally
placed themselves on "war alert."

The decision, reached on Wednesday evening by the self-styled
parliament of the Croatian Serbs, is intended to put pressure on
Croatia's president, Franjo Tudjman, to reverse his decision to
terminate the mission of the 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers in Croatia
on March 31.

Since the Croatian war of 1991 ended in a tenuous truce, U.N.
troops have acted as a buffer between the Serbs and the Croatian
government army. Annoyed by the failure of the peacekeeping
troops to disarm the Serbs, and concerned that the U.N. mandate
might simply freeze the current front line, Tudjman made the
decision last month.

An economic accord reached last year between Serbs and Croatia
led to the opening of a stretch of highway through Serb-held
territory and of an oil pipeline. But other steps relating to
railroads and telecommunications have not yet been put into
effect.

Borislav Mikelic, the self-styled foreign minister of the
Croatian Serbs, said on Thursday: "We decided it was now
necessary to delay further implementation of the economic
agreement until the United Nations Security Council extends the
mandate in Croatia."

As Mikelic knows, the problem with extending the troops' mandate
lies not with the Security Council but with Croatia's government.

The decision by the Serbs to cut off talks and freeze economic
cooperation puts Tudjman in an awkward situation. If he retreats
now from his position -- for example, by allowing a more limited
number of U.N. troops to remain -- he will appear to have bowed
to Serbian pressure.

Gen. Ratko Mladic, formally the commander of the Bosnian Serbs
but in practice the commander of all Serbs west of the Drina
River, is a master of such pre-emptive decisions, which have
tended to keep his opponents and the international community
off-balance since the breakup of Yugoslavia.

There have been signs recently -- including 62 helicopter
sorties last week that almost certainly originated in Serbia --
that the Serbs are actively preparing for a possibly wider
conflict in the spring. Three Bosnian Serb helicopters and two
light aircraft took off on Thursday from the Serbian-held town
of Banja Luka in Bosnia, U.N. officials said.

The Bosnian and Croatian armies are also moving a lot of men and
equipment in the current lull.

Although the U.N. Security Council has appealed to Tudjman to
reverse his decision, U.N. officials here believe a withdrawal
from Croatia will probably have to begin next month.

NATO would play a central role in a withdrawal, and its
officials are due to meet with the Croatian government on Friday
to discuss preparations, including the installation of secure
telephone lines between Zagreb and Split, diplomats said.

The withdrawal would almost certainly be messy because the Serbs
would try to stop it, and U.N. hostages might be taken.

Because most of the airfields and ports that the U.N. uses for
its Yugoslav mission are in Croatia, its ability to operate in
Bosnia would also be jeopardized by any withdrawal from Croatia.

Many of the Serbian families now living in Croatia moved to the
area t more than 300 years ago, installed there by the
Austro-Hungarian Empire as a military buffer against the Ottoman
Turks.

Backed by the Yugoslav army, and mindful of Croatia's genocidal
policies against the Serbs in the Nazi occupation of World War
II, Croatia's Serbs went to war in 1991 to avoid becoming part
of a new Croatian state whose government they saw as threatening.

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OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 30, 10 February 1995



SERBS VIOLATE BOSNIAN CEASE-FIRE. The BBC's Serbian Service on
10 February reports major violations of the cease-fire the
previous day by Bosnian Serb forces in Sarajevo and Krajina Serb
units in the Bihac pocket. The UN, meanwhile, has complained
again about Serbian authorities barring UN monitors from access
to radar at Belgrade airport last week, when Serbian military
helicopter flights to Bosnia were taking place. International
media report that U.S. President Bill Clinton and German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, meeting in Washington, called for
strengthening the Croatian-Muslim federation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. -- Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



TURKISH LEGISLATORS WANT UNPROFOR TO HELP ENFORCE PEACE. Hina
reports on 10 February that visiting Turkish deputies told their
Croatian counterparts that UNPROFOR's mandate in both Croatia
and Bosnia needs redefining. The Turks stressed that UNPROFOR
should not be trying to keep a peace that does not really exist
but rather to make peace. Meanwhile in Krajina, the Serbs
announced they will respect agreements in force on reopening the
Zagreb-Lipovac highway and the Adria pipeline but will suspend
those not yet put into practice. The latter include projects to
reopen the railway line through the zone known as Sector West
and to restart the water supply for Pakrac. The Serbian
authorities also refused some Croatian refugees permission to
visit their homes in occupied areas, although some Serbs have
been allowed to return to their houses in Novska and Nova
Gradiska. -- Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



BALKAN DIPLOMATIC UPDATE. Nasa Borba reports from the Sandzak on
10 February that Rasim Ljajic, general secretary of the mainly
Muslim Party for Democratic Action, has called for Serbia,
Croatia, and Bosnia to recognize one another in their
internationally valid frontiers. Zagreb and Sarajevo insist on
such recognition as proof that Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic has abandoned his ambitions to create a Greater
Serbia, but Belgrade refuses to do so. The same newspaper also
quotes American media sources and an interview with the U.S.
ambassador to Croatia in a Zagreb weekly as indicating that
Washington has warned Croatia not to expect any U.S. support if
it renews the war in Krajina. Finally, rump Yugoslav Foreign
Minister Vladislav Jovanovic is reported to be in Athens to
discuss the possible opening of a "diplomatic office" in Skopje
and its potential effects on Greek-Serbian relations. -Patrick
Moore, OMRI, Inc.



JOURNALISTS STRIKE IN SERBIA? Nasa Borba on 10 February reports
that the editorial board of the journal Liberal has called for a
journalists strike to protest Belgrade's recent attacks on
Serbia's independent media. The board observes that the
crackdown amounts to "the despotic regime of Slobodan Milosevic
extinguishing the last free light in Serbia." -- Stan Markotich,
OMRI, Inc.





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FRONTLINES, Bosnia and Herzegovina



        Fighting flared around the "UN protected" safe area of
Bihac town in northwest Bosnia on Thursday and peacekeepers said
most of the firing came from Serb positions.        UN spokesman
Paul Risley said on that "separatist Bosnian Serb forces
launched a calculated and deliberate" infantry and artillery
attack on the Bihac town on Thursday. UN observers counted 208
shells hitting the Vedro Polje and Klokot area, which the
government forces took last month.        Sarajevo radio,
quoting Bihac defenders, reported a Serb artillery, tank and
infantry attack on the town and said it was being hit by
shellfire.        Sources close to the separatist Serb Army
denied that its forces had any part in the clashes. UN
peacekeeping spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Coward said the
UN had sent military observers to find out what was happening
but forces involved in the fighting routinely obstruct effort to
monitor their activities.

        The separatist Serb Army encircling Sarajevo unleashed a
brief but jarring mortar barrage on the capital in the worst
breach yet of a ceasefire. UN military spokeswoman Captain
Miriam Souchaki said eight mortar rounds exploded in an unmanned
trench along the front-line that runs through Sarajevo's Jewish
cemetery. Machinegun fire rattled out after the explosions
boomed across the city as night fell, reporters said. There were
no apparent casualties.

        The UN said it was sure that dozens of helicopter
flights over Bosnia last week had originated in Serbia, raising
fears that the separatist Serbs were resupplying for renewed
warfare.

        The main UN aid agency decided to suspend its Friday
airlift into Sarajevo following the abduction of one its local
employees, an ethnic Serb, by government forces.  The arrest of
Svetlana Boskovic, 29, is an apparent response to the continued
detention of Bosnian journalist Namik Berberovic who was
snatched from a UN military vehicle by separatist Serb forces
near the Sarajevo airport two weeks ago.



Direct negotiation ?? PALE, Bosnia and Herzegovina



        Separatist Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Thursday
welcomed the Bosnian government's statement that it was prepared
to negotiate on a final political settlement of the war in the
ex-Yugoslav republic.        Karadzic said he is not posing any
preconditions for negotiations and that he is prepared to talk
with the Bosnian government in the immediate future.
Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said on Tuesday he was
prepared to hold peace talks with his Serb enemies to save
civilians in his country from further suffering.        The
Bosnian government has refused to talk to the Serbs until they
accepted an international peace plan dividing Bosnia into two
almost equal entities.



NATO -- Croatia-- Pullout Plan BRUSSELS, Belgium



        NATO's decision-making council agreed on Wednesday to
sound out Croatia on how it could assist in any alliance-led
pullout of United Nations peacekeepers from Bosnia and Croatia.
Alliances sources said NATO military planners wanted to make
progress on establishing the required communications network,
but ruled out any despatch of NATO ground forces at this stage.
Croatian help would be needed if NATO were to organise the
withdrawal of UNPROFOR from Bosnia, but the issue is closely
linked with a threatened withdrawal of UN "blue helmets" from
Croatia.        NATO sources again stressed final approval for
the pullout plan, which could involve up to 45,000 troops, would
not come for several more weeks. NATO Secretary-General Willy
Claes told a Belgian newspaper in an interview published on
Wednesday that, if the alliance were asked, it would be able to
carry out the withdrawal in what would be the biggest military
operation ever launched in peacetime Europe.

        Meanwhile German Defence Minister Volker Ruehe received
a letter from NATO asking for "more precise details of our basic
commitment made in December 1994 to provide German troops to
secure any possible withdrawal of blue helmets from Bosnia and
Herzegovina," government spokesman Dieter Vogel said.
Last December Bonn agreed, in response to a NATO request, to
provide up to 10 Tornado fighter-bombers, some equipped with
radar-jamming equipment, to protect a pullout of peacekeepers.
It also pledged electronic surveillance jets, transport planes,
minesweepers and patrol boats and earmarked a field hospital and
two mobile medical units. Up to 2,000 troops could be sent, but
Bonn has said it will not send ground forces.



Serbia and Russia -- Long-Term Gas Deal BELGRADE, Serbia



        Serbia and Russia signed an agreement in Belgrade on
Tuesday to ensure long-term natural gas deliveries until 2010.
The news agency Tanjug quoted Oleg Davydov, Russian Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, as saying
Moscow was also prepared to deliver aircraft fuel, even if it
was in contravention of UN-imposed sanctions.        Davydov,
leading a delegation holding wide-ranging ranging talks in
Belgrade, also said that Moscow wanted to discuss lifting all
trade barriers with Serbia.        "Today we had talks about the
fact that the main thrust in our foreign trade cooperation ought
to be the removal of all obstacles," Davydov said. "This can be
achieved by completely liberating our trade, by creating a free
trade zone between Russia and Yugoslavia."        Davydov told
Tanjug that Russia was ready to deliver kerosene to Yugoslavia
and that it would find a way of doing so should the UN Sanctions
Committee refuse permission.        "Should the UN Sanctions
Committee fail to accept our decision, the only way out for us
would be to leave the committee, or to find a way of carrying
out those deliveries", Tanjug quoted him as saying.



Rebel Serbs go on war alert in Croatia SARAJEVO, Bosnia and
Herzegovina



        Rebel Croatian Serbs, deeply involved in fighting in
northwest Bosnia, were on war alert on Thursday after their
parliament froze further implementation of an economic accord
and suspended political talks with Zagreb.        The
Croatian-Serb Krajina parliament voted on Wednesday to halt
further steps towards rapprochement with Croatia and also voted
a companion resolution to declare a war alert, one stage below a
full-scale state of war.        Krajina foreign minister Milan
Babic said the republic would not cancel steps already made to
implement the economic accord, including the reopening of
Croatia's main cross-country highway and an oil pipeline which
both pass through rebel-held terrain, unless Croatian government
forces attacked.        The president of the Krajina Serb
Republic, Milan Martic, said the war alert did not mean his
troops would go on a war footing. "We have unanimously decided
to adopt a milder form of the state of war, that is, a state of
war readiness," he said.



Sarajevo's First Train SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina



        A truck fitted with train wheels hauling two green rail
cars, carrying well-wishers and government officials, left the
central station on a four mile round trip through northwestern
suburbs of Sarajevo on Wednesday.        Wednesday's train was a
trial run a day before regular passenger services were scheduled
to begin. The new line would serve areas currently cut off from
the single tram line that is the only other form of public
transport in the besieged city. It is planned to run from 7.30
a.m. to 4 p.m., carrying 2,500 to 3,000 passengers a day, but
will only be able to run within the frontlines that surround the
city.        The last train left Sarajevo in May 1992, one month
after the war erupted and the Serb siege of the city began.
  Outside Sarajevo, Bosnian authorities have revived rail
service in government-held territory, with trains running from
Tuzla, Zepce and in southwestern Bosnia between Pazaric and
Jablanica.





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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: C2FK2639
Date: 02/11/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)
         Time: 04:43pm \/To: ALL
               (Read 2 times) Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE



Croatia said yesterday that it wanted N.A.T.O. to monitor its
borders after U.N. peacekeepers leave.



Bosnian Government and Bosnian Serb troops fought yesterday for
control of water supplies to Bihac. Bosnian Government troops
took control of Klokot on January 14 to secure a well that
supplies Bihac.



Bosnian Serbs blocked U.N. convoys yesterday in Sarajevo. The
move was in retaliation for the detention of a Serbian relief
worker who was accused of passing information to Bosnian Serbs.
(Reuters/N.Y.T.)



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FRONTLINES, Bosnia and Herzegovina



        The fighting in the northwestern Bihac pocket was among
the most serious violations of the truce that took effect Jan.
1. Government troops and separatist Bosnian Serbs were fighting
over a plateau overlooking Bihac town, a UN-declared "safe area"
where civilians are supposed to be under UN protection. UN
officials said the Serbs might be trying to take control of the
town's water supply system.        Sarajevo was relatively quiet
Friday, and UN officials said a route linking the capital with
Visoko to the northwest was in use -- the second road between
Sarajevo and other government-held territory to be reopened this
month.        The UN noted truce violations near Doboj and
Lukavac in the north. UN observers also reported Serb violations
of a UN-declared "no-fly zone" in the northwest -- the flight of
three fixed-wing aircraft, capable of carrying missiles, from
Banja Luka airport.



Separatist Serbs Shut Down Aid Conwoys SARAJEVO, Bosnia and
Herzegovina



        Separatist Serbs shut down aid convoys out of Sarajevo
on Friday. The decision to halt the aid convoys prompted the UN
to suspend the aid airlift to Sarajevo as of Saturday, because
of limited storage space at the airport.        On Thursday, the
government arrested an ethnic Serb, Svetlana Boskovic, working
with the UNHCR. Kris Janowski, spokesman for the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, said Boskovic was accused of spying.

The arrest appeared to have been provoked by the detention of a
Muslim journalist by Bosnian Serbs on Jan. 26. The journalist,
Namik Berberovic, is still being held.



Tudjman Insists Peacekeepers Leave ZAGREB, Croatia



        President of Croatia Franjo Tudjman insisted Friday that
UN peacekeepers will have to leave Croatia after their mandate
expires on March 31.

Speaking to reporters Friday, Tudjman said he would allow
international observers along Croatia's borders if a political
agreement is reached with the rebel Serbs. The observers would
help ease the reintegration of Serb-held territory into Croatia
proper, he said. He predicted there would be no outbreak of war
once the peacekeepers withdraw.        "There will be no war,
but there might be isolated incidents," Tudjman said. Croatia
made the move hoping it would "speed up the peace process in
former Yugoslavia."

Tudjman acknowledged that the attitude of Serbia's President
Slobodan Milosevic was critical to getting the Croatian Serbs to
accept peace.



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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: C2HN3007
Date: 02/13/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)
          Time: 07:50pm \/To: ALL
                 (Read 3 times) Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE



About 1,500 rounds were fired in the Bihac area over the
weekend. At least one man was killed in a Bosnian Serb shelling
of Bihac. A Bosnian Serb assault on Bosanska Krupa began
Saturday, and there were reports of as many as 1,000 Serbian
soldiers crossing into Bosnia from Croatia. (Roger Cohen/N.Y.T.)



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FRONTLINES, Bosnia and Herzegovina (12 - 13 Feb)



        UN said fighting intensified Sunday in the Bihac pocket.
A UN military spokesman Maj. Herve Gourmelon said the fighting
stretches from Bihac town at the southwest of the pocket, where
a three-day battle for control of the "safe area" is continuing,
to the Serb-controlled town of Bosanska Krupa, 25 km to the
northeast.        Within the Bihac "safe area" separatist Serbs
continued attacks with supporting artillery fire from the
Krajina Serbs in Croatia to push the Bosnian 5th corp army away
from the international border southwest of Bihac. Over 500
shells have fallen into the "safe-area" since late Saturday. UN
said that at least one person, a 32-year-old man, was killed.
Bosnian radio put the town's death toll at three.        Bosnian
television said Sunday that the separatist Serbs have been using
helicopters as well as heavy artillery to bomb government
positions just north of the town. Gourmelon says he cannot
confirm the reports of helicopters. He added that more than 400
detonations have been counted north of the Una river where the
separatist Serbs launched an unsuccessful infantry attack in an
effort to push the Bosnian army north, away from Bosanska Krupa.
       An unnamed French aid agency managed to get four
truckloads of humanitarian aid into the enclave.

        Two men are recovering from gunshot wounds Sunday after
a sniper attack near downtown Sarajevo. A 16 jear old boy Dzemal
Karovic was shot in the stomach and a older man, Mujo Klino, 43,
was shot in the hand when he went to help him. The boy is
reportedly in serious condition at the city's Kosevo Hospital,
the elder man was treated and released.        Separatist
Bosnian Serbs said Government soldier shot a child in a Serb
held suburb Cekrcici. The news agency SRNA later reported that a
child had been seriously wounded by a small arms attack. No
further details were available.

        UN officials also have filed a strong protest Sunday
with the separatist Bosnian Serbs over the firing on of a
British helicopter Saturday afternoon, approximately 100 km
northwest of Sarajevo. The UN said the firing was ironic since
the helicopter was transporting a Serb liason officer to Banja
Luka.

        The UN also reported air activity on Friday over Bosnia
in apparent violation of a NATO-enforced no-fly zone banning
military flights by combatants.        A Mi-8 helicopter was
reported flying in the government- held Zenica area in central
Bosnia UN said.        UN military observers in the Serb-held
area of Banja Luka reported three light aircraft and two Mi-8s
violating the no-fly zone near Zaluzani.

        On Sunday, UN aid officials said the Sarajevo airlift
will restart Monday.



Silajdzic: Time For Peace Waning SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(12 Feb)



        Bosnia's Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said Saturday
his government's troops will return to war rather than extend
the current cease-fire unless Serbs begin serious negotiations
for peace. He said the UN should take action -- presumably by
lifting an arms embargo on the Bosnian government -- if Serbs
don't budge.



Rebel Croatian Serbs Enter Bosnia SARAJEVO, Bosnia and
Herzegovina (12 Feb)



        The report of more than 1,000 Serbs fighters from
Croatia came a day after Lt. Col. Gary Coward, a UN military
spokesman, reported fighting raging across three fronts in
northwest Bosnia: Bihac town, Velika Kladusa and Bosanska Krupa.

The Croatian Serb soldiers crossed into the region in buses and
trucks over the last 24 hours, said a UN official in Zagreb, who
spoke on condition of anonymity.        Bosnian Army General
Jovan Divjak, renewed charges that separatist Serbs were
receiving support from Serbia and even from Russia. In an
interview with the Croatian daily Vecernji List, Divjak charged
Serbs had assembled anti-aircraft guns from Russian parts, and
that Russian mercenaries were fighting in Bosnia.



UN tries to arrange a meeting SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(13 Feb)



        The UN Bosnia commander, Lieutenant-General Rupert
Smith, was trying to arrange a meeting on Monday with Bosnian
Serb General Ratko Mladic, a UN spokesmen in Sarajevo said.
  Smith met the commander of Bosnian government forces, General
Rasim Delic, on Sunday to try to persuade him to attend talks on
implementing the ceasefire.        Smith wants to get on with
talks between Delic and Mladic to cement the ceasefire, which is
due to expire on May 1.        A UN spokesman said Delic might
reconsider his refusal to attend a Wednesday meeting with Serb
commanders if Serb forces ceased their attacks on Bihac and
allowed aid to enter the area.



Karadzic: We will help Krajina Serbs BELGRADE, Serbia (12 Feb)



        Separatist Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was quoted on
Sunday as saying his forces would unite with fellow Serbs in the
breakaway Krajina region of Croatia if they were attacked after
UN trooops left. He said that united armies will be the first
"practical step towards the unification of the two Serb states."
       UN officers fear a UN withdrawal could ignite renewed
battles in Croatia. They also noted that Krajina Serb forces
were already closely cooperating with the Bosnian Serbs in
fighting around the northwest Bosnian enclave of Bihac.



"Parliament" set to resist Belgrade pressure BOSANSKI SAMAC,
Bosnia and Herzegovina (13 Feb)



        The separatist Bosnian Serb "parliament" appears
determined to fight pressure from Belgrade to accept an
international peace plan when it meets on Monday in Bosanski
Samac in northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina.        Bosnian Serb
sources said they believed a majority of deputies loyal to
Radovan Karadzic would try either to force the seven mavericks
(lead by Goran Dodik) back into the fold or to silence them
during the closed-door session.        Dodik, who has the
support of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, said he would
push for the peace plan to be included on the agenda. The seven
mavericks are said to have the tacit support of another 20
moderate "deputies."



Jackovich hints at departure SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Feb 12)



        The USA ambassador to Bosnia, Victor Jackovich, in an
interview in Oslobodjenje newspaper, has hinted he may soon
leave his post.        Western diplomats in Sarajevo and
elsewhere say the State Department believed Jackovich had
allowed his sympathies with Bosnia's government to colour his
conduct.        "They want him out," said one diplomatic source.
"He's viewed as partisan."        Jackovich denied that
Washington's attitude to the conflict had changed and indicated
USA policy would remain the same even with a new ambassador in
Sarajevo.





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OMRI DAILY DIGEST

No. 31, 13 February 1995



UN CONDEMNS SERB FLIGHTS OVER BOSNIA. The BBC's Serbian and
Croatian Services reported on 13 February that the UN ruled that
all sides in the Bosnian conflict have broken flight
restrictions in that embattled republic but that the Bosnian
Serbs have been "especially active." The report noted daily
flights from Serb airfields in Banja Luka and in Krajina in the
past two weeks. The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA quotes Radovan
Karadzic as saying that if Croatia attacks the Krajina Serbs,
his men will defend them, and that this would be the first
practical step toward the unification of the two rebel Serb
states. The latest UN report and the course of fighting around
Bihac, however, help recall that the two groups have long been
working hand-in-glove and in cooperation with authorities in
Serbia proper. -- Patrick Moore, OMRI, Inc.



BIHAC FIGHTING AT CENTER OF ATTENTION. International media
report on 13 February that combat in the Bihac pocket
intensified over most of the weekend and that Krajina Serb land
reinforcements have arrived. The Bosnian government singled out
the situation around Bihac as demanding immediate attention if
the ceasefire that is largely holding elsewhere is to be
maintained. UN commander Lieutenant-General Rupert Smith met on
12 February with his Bosnian government counterpart General
Rasim Delic and now wants to see Bosnian Serb General Ratko
Mladic. The 13 February Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung notes
fighting on three fronts: Bihac itself, Velika Kladusa, and
Bosanska Krupa. Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic, for his
part, already seems to have soured on the ceasefire, saying it
should not be extended when it expires on 1 May. He charged that
an extension "would serve the purpose of our enemies, and that
is to keep the status quo here forever." -- Patrick Moore, OMRI,
Inc.



A SHAKY FUTURE FOR BOSNIAN CROATS. Among the worst victims of
the CroatMuslim war of 1993 were the Croats of Bosnia, who,
unlike those of Herzegovina, live in widely scattered
communities that are frequently far from Croatia or other solid
areas of Croatian settlement. Vecernji list of 13 February
quotes Bishop Franjo Komarica of Serb-held Banja Luka as saying
that his people are frightened and confused, wanting only to get
out. He laments, however, that the continued exodus on top of
the Serbs' own ethnic cleansing could mean the end for many
age-old Croatian communities in Bosnia. Meanwhile in northern
Bosnia, on 12 February the cantonal legislature of Posavina met
in Orasje amid the presence of many Bosnian and Bosnian Croat
dignitaries, including federal President Kresimir Zubak. The
session dealt with a number of questions in CroatMuslim
relations and marks a step toward the normal functioning of the
joint federation in northern Bosnia. The region has its own
distinct profile, and the Croats in nearby Gradacac kept their
alliance with the Muslims even in 1993. Many Posavina Croats
suspect, moreover, that the Zagreb and Herzegovinian authorities
have repeatedly sold out their interests. Croatian President
Franjo Tudjman has often tried to mollify the angry people of
Posavina, many of whom feel he deliberately abandoned their city
of Bosanski Brod in a secret deal with the Serbs.-- Patrick
Moore, OMRI, Inc.