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BOSNIAN CEASE-FIRE DELAYED

The cease-fire was delayed because gas and electricity were not
fully restored to Sarajevo. Russia had turned

on the gas supplies for Bosnia after the deadline at midnight
Monday. The gas pipe runs via Hungary through

Serbia to Sarajevo. UN officials predict that utilities could be
fully restored within two days, creating conditions for the
truce to take effect.



SERB ATTACKS

One person died and another was injured in yesterday's

Serb cluster bomb attack on Dakovo. The town of Novska

was also rocked by a powerful explosion. Minutes later,

the towns Lipovljani, Okucani, Zupanja, Bosnjaci and Nova

Gradiska were put on general alert.

One dead person and 9 injured were brought to the Nova

Gradiska Hospital following the attack.



SERB ARTILLERY ATTACKS KILL UN TROOP

A member of the Norwegian UN troops was killed in the

Bosnian Serb artillery attack on the Tuzla airfield

yesterday. This was followed by 6 NATO jets firing 10

laser-guided bombs and 4 rockets towards Serb military

targets south-east of Tuzla, which apparently destroyed a

Bosnian Serb command bunker.



RESIDENTS EXPELLED FROM TESLIC

Another 97 Croats and some 1,000 Muslims were expelled from
Teslic overnight, this is according to the Usora Red Cross. Each
of them were made to pay 50 German marks in order to be allowed
to leave the area. Able bodied men were separated from the group
and taken to an unknown destination.





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SERBS FIRE AT OKUCANI

Bosnian Serbs fired Orkan-type rockets on the Okucani

region just after 8 p.m. last night.  According to the

local information center in Nova Gradiska, another two

powerful detonations were registered after 10 p.m.

Tuesday's attack wounded three people.  Elementary

schools in Okucani will be closed today and the general

alert is still in effect for the Novalja and Lipovljani

regions.



CROATIAN FORCES TAKE MRKONJIC-GRAD

The Bosnian-Hercegovina Defence Ministry has announced

that the Croatian forces have taken control of Mrkonjic-

grad and its surroundings in the early afternoon hours of

Tuesday.



BOSNIAN ARMY TAKES SANSKI MOST

The Bosnian Army Fifth Corps and Bosnian police units

took control of Sanski Most and the surrounding  area

last night. Sarajevo radio, citing Fifth Corps sources,

reported that several days of shelling resulted in heavy

losses among the Serbs ranks and the capture of large

quantities of weapons and equipment.



GAS AND ELECTRICITY RESTORED IN SARAJEVO

The UN Spokesperson in Zagreb has announced that

electricity and gas supplies have been restored to

Sarajevo.  The Spokesperson also said that the Sarajevo-

Gorazde road was still not re-opened as it was being

repaired and cleared of mines.



NEW CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL

The Bosnian Government, at last night's meeting at the

Sarajevo airport, put forward a proposal for the cease-

fire to come into force tonight one minute after

midnight, announced UNPROFOR's Chief of Mission in

Bosnia, Antonio Pedaya.  He said that the Bosnian Serbs

will be revealing their final decision on this at 7 p.m.

today.



NEW UN ENVOY TO REPLACE AKASHI

The Bosnian government welcomed the announcement that UN

Special Envoy, Jasushi Akashi, who has served as the

Secretary General's envoy to the former Yugoslavia for

nearly two years, will be replaced by Kofi Annan of

Ghana.  UN Spokesperson, Joe Sills, said Akashi was

leaving at his own request.  During his term, Akashi

received a fair amount of criticism, especially from the

United States and the Bosnian government, who accused him

of being indecisive on calling in NATO air support

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CEASE-FIRE IN BOSNIA TAKES EFFECT

A Bosnian-wide cease-fire went into effect on Thursday

one minute after midnight.  The capital, Sarajevo, was

quiet as gas and electricity supplies were restored to

the city as part of the conditions for the truce.  It is

still unknown what the situation is like in the western

sections of the country which were plagued by fierce

fighting on Wednesday.  UNPROFOR officials are saying

that the fighting will not stop immediately but would

rather die down gradually as the cease-fire order reaches

the lower levels of command.  The U.S. brokered cease-

fire is expected to last 60 days during which a peace

accord should be reached and implemented by NATO and

countries not belonging to NATO, like Russia.



OVER 50,000 TROOPS TO ENFORCE NEW CEASE-FIRE

The number of troops that are to be deployed in Bosnia as

part of the multi-national force following the cease-fire

coming into effect is still not known.  According to

diplomatic sources in Brussels, the U.S. could send in

some 20 to 25 thousand troops, Britain 15 thousand,

France 12 and a half thousand, Germany 5 thousand and if

an agreement is reached in it's parliament, Spain will

contribute some 1 thousand troops.

This is to be the largest military operation in Europe

since World War Two.



MASS GRAVE IN PETRINJA

An ex-prisoner of Croatian Serbs showed Croatian

officials and human rights monitors where the bodies of

30 to 40 bodies were buried in Petrinja.  The bodies were

all of elderly people who did not manage to flee from the

Serbs.  Croatian authorities claim to have located up to

50 mass graves.  Major Ivan Grujic, head of Croatia's

commission for missing persons, said the excavations may

help solve the cases of 2,846 people still regarded as

missing from the 1991 war.



SERB OCCUPIED EASTERN SLAVONIA

UNCRO Spokesperson, Kirsten Haupt, stated in Osijek that

the situation in Croatia's occupied regions is stable but

that the cease-fire is still being violated by the Serb

side, however, less frequently than before. She could not

confirm if the Serbs had completed withdrawing their

heavy artillery because movement of UNCRO forces in the

area is still limited.  However, she added that civilian

police are routinely patrolling Vukovar, Ilok, and other

towns, except in Baranja where they are only allowed on

the main roads. She also stated that Croatian officials

and rebel Serb representatives would meet in Ilok on the

16th  of this month and in Osijek two days later.  Haupt

announced the joint Croat and Serb commission will meet

tomorrow at the UNCRO checkpoint between Nemetin and

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BATTLES CONTINUE IN WESTERN BOSNIA

United Nations military observers have reported that

battles are continuing in western Bosnia, especially

around the Bosnian Muslim held town of Sanski Most,

mainly in the form of heavy artillery and automatic arms

exchanges.  There have been no changes in the front

lines.

Meanwhile, UN sources have reported heavy artillery

exchanges around the town of Prijedor.  However, the UN

has expressed its satisfaction that the situation in

Western Bosnia is slowly stablizing.  In other areas of

Bosnia, the situation is nearly totally peaceful.



RECONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN IN NEWLY LIBERATED CROATIA

The Deputy Prime Minister, Jure Radi, who is also the

Minister of Reconstruction and Development, attended

today, in the town of Lovinac, the start of

reconstruction efforts in the sections of Lika liberated

in operation "Storm."  Some 500 homes are expected to be

rebuilt in the region by the end of 1995.



PEACE TALKS BEGIN IN VATICAN

Talks between Pope John Paul the second and bishops from

the countries of the former Yugoslavia have begun in the

Vatican today.  The senior church representatives from

the countries of the former Yugoslavia will discuss the

situation in the region within the current framework of

the peace initiatives.



CONTACT GROUP IN MOSCOW

The member states of the contact group have begun talks

in Moscow in regards to the peace process in Bosnia and

the Russian role within that progress.  Foreign affairs

delegates from Russia, the United States, France,

Germany, and Great Britain are participating as is the

U.S. peace negotiator, Richard Holbrooke.  The meeting is

the last for the contact group before the big peace talks

due to be held in Washington on the 31st of October.



MILOSEVIC IN MOSCOW

The U.S., Russian and European Union peace negotiators,

Richard Holbrooke, Igor Ivanov, and Carl Bildt announced

today in Moscow that they would jointly meet with Serbian

President, Slobodan Milosevic, in Belgrade tonight and

Bosnian President, Alija Izetbegovic, tomorrow in

Sarajevo.  Holbrooke said that the initiative shows an

increase in effort to find a solution to the crisis with

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BELGRADE MEETING

Peace mediators Holbrooke, Ivanov and Bildt met with

Serbian President Milosevic in Belgrade this morning to

discuss preparations for the peace conference scheduled

to begin in the U.S. in two weeks.  The Independent

Serbian Media reports that Milosevic yesterday refused to

meet with a Bosnian Serb delegation headed by Radovan

Karadzic. This was explained as a result of the

conditions set out by the war crimes tribunal at the

Hague banning Bosnian Serb leaders from setting foot in

Serbia.  The tribunal issued two warnings to Milosevic

previously after Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, both accused

of war crimes, were reportedly in Belgrade and reminded

Milosevic of his duty to extradite them to the tribunal.



SARAJEVO MEETING

U.S. Peace Envoy, Richard Holbrooke, Russian Deputy

Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov, and EU Peace Mediator,

Carl Bildt, arrived in Sarajevo this morning where they

discussed the peace process with Bosnian President, Alija

Izetbegovic.  The UNPROFOR headquarters in Sarajevo

revealed that General Rupert Smith will be updating the

peace envoys on the situation on the ground and any

problems encountered by the UN in the implementation of

the cease agreement.



U.S. Peace Envoy, Richard Holbrooke, stated to the

Sarajevo Daily "Oslobodenje" that after the war is over,

Sarajevo must not be allowed to resemble Berlin after the

second world war.  He predicted that the Bosnia peace

talks set to begin in the U.S. on October 31st will be

very difficult as the Bosnian and Serbian negotiators

have different views on key issues.



ARMS EMBARGO SOON TO BE LIFTED

The arms embargo against the Bosnian government should be

lifted after the signing of the Bosnia peace agreement,

said the U.S. Secretary of Defense, William Perry, in

Washington on Tuesday. Speaking before a Senate Committee

on foreign affairs, along with Secretary of State, Warren

Christopher, and Senior U.S. army officials, Perry added

that the training of the Bosnian Federation army is a

condition for the realization of peace in the region and

would be done without sending of U.S. troops.



OSIJEK MEETING CANCELLED

Talks that were due to be held today between the Croatian

government and representatives of rebel Croatian Serbs

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HOLBROOKE AND IVANOV IN ZAGREB

President Tudjman met with U.S. Peace Envoy, Richard

Holbrooke, and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Igor

Ivanov, this morning in Zagreb.  Holbrooke said that U.S.

officials came to prepare for President Tudjman's arrival

in Dayton and New York, where he is to meet with U.S.

President Bill Clinton for the October 31 peace talks.

Today's meeting focused on the situation in Bosnia, the

need for an overall cease-fire, which would include north

west Bosnia, and reaching a solution on the Serb occupied

territories of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western

Srijem.  After his meeting with Holbrooke, the President

spoke with Igor Ivanov who stated that Russia was

prepared to take part in resolving the eastern Slavonia

issue by peaceful means and as part of an overall peace

settlement.



CEASE-FIRE STILL HOLDING

The cease-fire is still holding in Bosnia for the most

part with some minor violations of demarcation lines in

western Bosnia.  UN spokesman in Sarajevo, Chris Vernon,

warned that UN observers still do not have freedom of

movement, which is of vital importance to the overseeing

of the cease-fire.  According to Vernon, the biggest

problems have occurred in central Bosnia in areas

overseen by the Bosnian Army 7th corps and also in the

south-west parts of Bosnia.



RETURN OF SERBS TO CROATIA

Deputy Prime Minster, Ivica Kostovic, met with the U.S.

state department aide for human rights issues, John

Shuttock.  After the meeting Kostovic stated that the

Croatian Red Cross and the International Federation of

the Red Cross would secure adequate care for senior

citizens of Serb nationality living in the liberated

areas of Croatia.  Kostovic said that he talked with

Shuttock about the return of the Serb population to

Croatia, and stressed that Croatia would promote the

return of these people primarily to reunite separated

families of Serb nationality.



UN DEMANDS RELEASE OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS

The UN is demanding the immediate release of two Turkish

journalists taken away by the Bosnian Serbs at a

checkpoint near Sarajevo 11 days ago. Head of the UN

mission in Sarajevo, Antonio Fedauya, has sent a letter

of protest to the Bosnian Serbs because of their refusal

to release the reporters.  He also added that the UN has

been denied visits with the two men.



KARADZIC STATES PILOTS KIDNAPPED

Spokesman for the International Committee of the Red

Cross in Geneva, Pierre Gautier, stated that the ICRC has

still not been able to trace the steps of two French

pilots who have been missing since their plane was shot

down near Sarajevo a month and a half ago.  Bosnian Serb

leader, Radovan Karadzic, stated that the pilots were

kidnapped from their hospital beds.  French Foreign

Minister, Heve de Charette, stated that he doesn't

believe a word of the statement and warned that the

situation is becoming increasingly serious, adding that

there is a possibility that the pilots are no longer

alive, a fact that Karadzic might be trying to hide.





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TUDJMAN ADDRESSES UN

Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman, in his address to

the 50th anniversary celebration of the United Nations,

stated that Croatia sincerely hopes that an agreement on

the peaceful reintegration of the Serb occupied eastern

Croatian regions will be reached soon.  But he also

pointed out that Croatia is prepared to undertake other

measures if the issue is not defined and resolved in the

upcoming peace talks.



President Tudjman took the opportunity to thank the UN

for its great humanitarian effort aimed at alleviating

the suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced

persons in Croatia and refugees from neighbouring Bosnia

and Hercegovina.



Mr. Tudjman's agenda for today includes meeting with

Germany's Foreign Minister, Klaus Kinkel, in which they

will discuss bilateral relations between Croatia and

Germany.  The peace process will also be the theme of

tonight's trilateral meeting between Tudjman, Bosnia's

President Izetbegovic, and Turkish President Demirel. The

meeting will take place at the Turkish mission at the UN.

Tudjman also backed up the acceptance of Germany and

Japan as permanent members of the UN Security Council.



CROTIAN-SLOVENIAN RELATIONS

President Tudjman, while in New York, also met with

Slovenian's President, Milan Kucan, in which they

discussed the perspectives for the peace process and the

overall situation in the region as well as in regards to

bilateral relations between Croatia and Slovenia and the

entry of the two countries into the process of European

integration.  The two presidents gave their support to

the U.S. initiative, and stressed the desire that open

questions between Croatia and Slovenia would be resolved

quickly.



OSIJEK TALKS BEGIN

Talks between Croatian government officials and rebel

Croatian Serbs in regards to the Serb occupied regions of

eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem, have begun

in Osijek.  The Osiek meeting with local Serbs, who are

headed by Milan Milanovic, is the third round of

negotiations, at which the usual array of international

figures will be present such as the Co-Chairman of the

International Conference on the former Yugoslavia,

Thorvald Stoltenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Peter

Galbraith, and European Union Envoy to the international

conference, Ghert Ahrens.



BOSNIAN FRONTLINES QUIET

The situation on the Bosnian frontlines on Sunday was

completely quiet, according to UN sources in Sarajevo.

The fighting has ceased even in north-west Bosnia, where

only one shell was registered Saturday.  Bosnian Muslim,

Croat, and Serb military representatives signed an

agreement on Friday, vowing to cease all combat

activities around Sanski Most.



Twenty prisoners were released on Saturday in the first

POW exchange under the terms of the October 12 agreement.

According to Bosnian government Minister, Hasan

Muratovic, the event could mean the beginning of a

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CLINTON-TUDJMAN-IZETBEGOVIC MEET

The U.S. President, Bill Clinton, is to meet today with

Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman, and  the Bosnian

President, Alija Izetbegovic.  The focal point of their

talks will be the U.S. initiative aimed at returning

peace to Bosnian as well as the peaceful reintegration of

Eastern Slavonia, Baranja, and western Srijem into

Croatia's legal system.

All three presidents have voiced their support for the

international community's peace efforts, and especially

the U.S. led initiative for the peace talks in Dayton,

Ohio, later this month.



OPERATION RETURN

The Foreign Ministers of Croatia, Bosnia and Turkey, Mate

Granic, Muhamed Sacirbey and Onur Ojmen, have signed an

agreement on a good will mission that would employ a

joint police force, called operation "Return".  This

police force would assist refugees  from Velika Kladusa

and Cazin to return safely to their homes from Croatia

where they are temporarily housed.  The refugees would be

able to return voluntarily, while the police would keep

the peace and assist in implementing emergency measures

for returning living conditions to normal, and building

trust amongst the local population. Croatia and Turkey

would participate with 50 police officers each, while

Bosnia would provide 100 officers.



OSIJEK TALKS

The third round of talks held in Osijek between the

representatives of the Croatian government and the local

Serbs ended yesterday afternoon following 5 hours of

negotiations.  No document was signed in the process, but

a step in the right direction had been made, as the Serbs

accepted the idea of the reintegration of Croatian

territories.  This was stated by the head of the Croatian

delegation, Hrvoje Sarinic, who added that a new round of

talks will be held in Erdut on Wednesday.



RUSSIANS WILL ENTER BOSNIA

Bill Clinton stated on Monday that he and Russian

President, Boris Yelstin, reached an agreement on joint

efforts for peace in Bosnia, adding that only some

details needed work.  Clinton said that they agreed that

Russian forces would participate in peace keeping

operations in Bosnia.  How this will look in the final

outcome, said Yelstin, is a military matter and is not a

job for the Presidents.  Yelstin did not reveal if his

agreement with Clinton defined what command Russian

troops would fall under.



REBUILDING IN PETRINJA

The Ministry of Development and Reconstruction is to

start rebuilding works on the most seriously damaged

homes in Petrinja following yesterday's signing of

agreements that will allow the construction works to

commence.





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TUDJMAN BACK IN ZAGREB

Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman, arrived in Zagreb

this morning from New York where he participated in the

50th anniversary celebration of the United Nations.

During his meeting with President Clinton, Tudjman

stressed that the international mediators at the

negotiations in Ohio should not only reach an agreement

on a solution to the Bosnian crisis but should also

enforce its implementation if it should prove necessary.

Tudjman stated this could only be achieved with the

deployment of NATO forces, with the inclusion of U.S.

forces.



Tudjman added that Croatia has halted all operations to

regain the still occupied territories of eastern Croatia

and has accepted negotiations as a way towards a peaceful

resolution.  Mr. Tudjman stressed, however, that if a

settlement is not reached in this way, Croatia would have

to utilize other means.



CROAT-SERB TALKS

After two and a half hours of direct talks and separate

consultations, the fourth round of negotiations between

delegations of the Croatian government and the local

Serbs concluded in Erdut.  The Croatian delegation was

led by Ivica Pasalic, and the Serbs by Milan Milanovic.

The Croatian delegation walked out at 1 p.m. with Pasalic

explaining that nothing of any significance eventuated at

today's talks. One of the main sticking points still to

be worked out is the issue of the duration of the

transitional period.  The next round of negotiations has

been scheduled for this coming Saturday in Osiek.



SERB FORCES ATTACK ORASJE AND SAMAC FRONTS

Serb forces launched sporadic attacks from heavy machine

guns and small arms on the Orasje and Samac fronts.  More

frequent attacks were reported by the HVO in Orasje on

the central section of the front from the direction of

Covic Polje and Obudovac towards Matici and Bok.  During

the night, an increase in traffic along the so-called

corridor was reported from Brcko via Loncar to Bosanski

Samac while helicopter flights were reported in the

direction of Pelagicevo.





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MEETING POSTPONED

The meeting between Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, and

the President's of Croatia Bosnia, and Serbia that was to

take place on the 31st, has been postponed, said

Yeltsin's aides in Moscow.  The Russian President is in

the hospital after suffering a mild heart attack, his

second in 4 months.  However, the U.S. State Department

said Yeltins's health should not interfere with the

scheduling of the peace talks in Ohio, set to being on

Nov. 31st.



MORE ACCESS TO SARAJEVO

The main road into Sarajevo is set to open to civilian

traffic today and the Sarajevo-Gorazde route is scheduled

to open tomorrow.  It was announced in Sarajevo the 5

civilian trucks with UN escorts will set out for the

Bosnian capital from Tracina and from Kiseljak.  Freight

cargo traffic will be limited to every other day and by

Sunday busses should join the convoys.



BOSNIAN PEACE PACKAGE

Senior Envoy, Richard Holbrooke, told the Washington Post

the United States has been prepared an outline of the

latest Bosnian Peace package for Ohio talks.  The

package, which is receiving some finishing touches from

the Bosnian contact group, includes suggestions for a

constitution and details regarding territory.  The plan

will include an agreement on division of forces, election

guidelines for Bosnia, and the return of refugees.

Holbrooke added that he felt all three sides had

toughened-up their views in the past couple of days.



Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Defense, William Perry, and

his counterpart, Pavel Grachov, are continuing their

talks in Kansas.  Perry said he felt they had come

somewhat closer in their views on Russian participation

in the international peace implementation force in

Bosnia.  Perry said he hoped they would settle their

differences, which center on Moscow's refusal to put its

troops under NATO command, something the U.S. sees as a

must.



AID AND RECONSTRUCTION

In Brussels, the parliamentary assembly of the Council of

Europe released an official statement on its preliminary

session where the main discussion was the aid and

reconstruction for the countries of the former

Yugoslavia.  The statement points out that refugees

number over 3.5 million in the entire region while

750,000 of them have been temporarily taken in by other

countries.  The European Commission believes that

humanitarian aid will have to be increased by 200 million

ECU's for 1996.  The sum does not include other funds

from the EU or international organisations like the

UNHCR.   Aid will only be available to those states who

guarantee the refugees the right to return home, co-

operate with the international war crimes tribunal, and

those countries that practice political democracy and

economic reform.



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ELECTIONS

Voting posts closed at 7 p.m. on Sunday for the elections

of 127 members of the Croatian Parliament's lower house

of Representatives.  In Croatia, voters cast their

ballots at  6,684 voting posts with a total of 3,601,913

voters registered in Croatia.  Croatian citizens abroad

cast their votes at 239 voting posts in 42 countries.



The President of the electoral committee, Krunislav

Olujic, briefed the press Monday evening on the latest

preliminary and unofficial results of the party slate

elections.  He said that according to the results that

have come in from 5,188 polling places, the Croatian

Democratic Union (HDZ)  has captured 43.66 percent of the

vote, while trailing are the joint opposition parties,

the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the Croatian Peoples

Party (HNS), with 19.30 percent.  According to the

preliminary results of the diaspora vote which is voting

for 12 representatives in Parliament, HDZ is leading with

86.63 percent of this vote, while the special list of the

Homeland Association and Diaspora has managed to capture

4.81 percent.  In the electoral units where one deputy is

being elected out of 28 electoral units, HDZ candidates

have won in 20, while the opposition has won in 8.



OBSERVERS OVERSEE ELECTIONS

The elections were being observed by 112 foreign

observers, most of whom are from the Council of Europe's

Parliamentary assembly and from the Conference for

Security and Cooperation in Europe.  According to the

head of the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly

delegation which is monitoring the elections, Lord

Finsberg, the overall impression is that the elections in

Croatia followed democratic rules and regulations and

that the elections were free and fair. However, the

delegation is to put forward a number of remarks

regarding the issue of the special voting block for the

diaspora, the cutting down of the guaranteed Serb

minority block to three seats as well as certain moves in

the media that could be seen as bias.  The report of the

delegation will be forwarded to the Secretariat of the

Council of Europe.



GENERAL ALERT IN DUBROVNIK

The wider Dubrovnik area from Slano to Prevlaka was put

on general alert just after noon on Sunday.  The alert

ceased after almost two hours.  During the day, the

Orasac area on the southern section of the front was hit

with artillery fire, stated General Zivko Budimir.  He

explained that the attacks were most likely deliberate

provocations coming during the elections when most people

were going to the polls.



PEACE PACKAGE

The U.S. has come up with a peace package for the

upcoming talks in Ohio. The peace package includes five

agreements.  The peace agreement should pave the way to a

complete cessation of hostilities in all parts of Bosnia

and the warring sides are also expected to commit to

respecting all basic human rights standards.  The

division of forces agreement details which forces are to

be divided, what NATO will do to divide them, and how

wide the disengagement zone would be.  The remaining

three documents are; additions to the basic principles,

an agreement on the return of refugees and an agreement

on reconstruction.



SERB-CROAT RELATIONS

The first session of the HDZ central committee for the

building of trust with the Serbs in Croatia was held in

Zagreb today under the chairmanship of President Tudjman.

It was agreed that a systematic effort aimed at the

rebuilding of trust in the relations with Serbs in

Croatia was of the utmost importance.  The committee has

stressed its deep awareness of the tragic and

unacceptable events happening in the so far liberated

sections of Croatia and gave its full support for such

actions not to be allowed to be repeated in the future.



SERBS REFUSE TO SIGN AGREEMENT

Serbs are refusing to sign an agreement on the

reintegration of eastern Slavonia, Baranja, and western

Srijem, announced Chief  Serb negotiator, Milan

Milanovic, after two and a half hours of talks with U.S.

Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith.  Explaining their

reasons for refusing to sign, Milanovic said the

agreement foresees a swift reintegration of Eastern

Slavonia into Croatia.  UN negotiator, Thorvald

Stoltenburg, announced that the agreement is the best

possible proposal that the international community can

offer.



FIRST CONVOY FOR GORAZDE

The situation in Bosnia is relatively quiet, UN military

observers are reporting only some minor incidents which

are not being regarded as a threat to the cease-fire at

this time.  The efforts of the UN are focused on securing

greater freedom of movement for UN personnel and

civilians.  The first convoy bound for Gorazde since the

war began, set out Monday morning.  The five-truck convoy

was not stopped or searched along the route.  Also, after

5 months the bridge that links the Bosnian government-

held part of Sarajevo with Serb-held Grbavica, has been

reopened.  For now the bride is only open to the UN and

humanitarian air vehicles.



RUSSIA WILL JOIN PEACE FORCE

Russia will participate in the joint multi-national

forces which should be arriving in Bosnia and Hercegovina

as part of the second implementation phase of the peace

agreement, but only if they are included in its initial

stage of separating the conflicting sides, announced

Defense Minister, Pavel Grachov.  He explained that

Moscow will participate in special actions such as

assisting the return of refugees, air transport and the

clearing of mines.



REPORTS OF MORE MASS GRAVES

U.S. newspapers have been reporting new evidence of mass

graves in Bosnia.  A report in Sundays edition of the New

York Times estimates that six thousand Muslims were

murdered in July of this year after the Serbs captured

Srebrenica.  The paper reveals that the Bosnian Serb

attack on this town was described by officials from the

west and from human rights groups as the worst war crime

committed in Europe since the Second World War.  The

Washington Post reveals that the U.S. has handed over

photographs and other evidence of mass graves which

merged, after the Srebrenica massacre, to investigators

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DAYTON PEACE TALKS

The Bosnia peace talks opened Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio.

After the opening of the meeting where all the parties were

joined by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the

Presidents and chief negotiators laid out their basic

positions. U.S. officials handed out the text of the

proposed peace package, with 11 separate additions, which

lay out the basic terms of the peace agreement such as the

basic principles, maps with the demarcation lines, human

rights, the problem of refugees and their return etc.



The Croatian delegation is being lead by President Tudjman,

the Bosnian delegation by President Izetbegovic, the

Federation President by Kresimir Zubak and the joint

delegation of Yugoslavia and the Bosnian Serbs by Serbian

President Milosevic.



U.S. officials said the presidents of Croatia and Serbia

agreed, after talks with Secretary of State Warren

Christopher, to work towards "full normalization of

relations between their two countries"  and to solve their

only dispute, Eastern Slavonia. State Department

spokesperson Nicholas Burns said presidents Tudjman and

Milosevic agreed to became personally involved in resolving

a dispute over the Serb-held territory in Croatia and speed

negotiations on the issue.



The contact group and EU representatives are also taking

part in the Dayton talks.  During the talks, the presidents

of Bosnia and Serbia will be accommodated at the U.S. army

base Wright Peterson, while President Tudjman is to go back

to Croatia tonight and will return to the U.S. when

necessary.



BOSNIAN WITNESSES OF SERB MASSACRES

A letter in today's edition of the London Paper, The

Guardian, states that according to the testimony of Muslim

prisoners who were freed this week in an exchange of

prisoners with the Bosnian Serbs, Serb troops had engaged in

a killing spree during their withdrawal form the area around

Sanski Most.  The witnesses are part of a group of Muslims,

among which are 303 civilians and 21 soldiers, who were

exchanged for 136 Serb soldiers and  civilians.  The article

reveals how on Oct. 11 the Serb paramilitary killed at least

11 prisoners during their retreat before advancing Bosnian

Army troops, while taking the remaining prisoners with them.

Bosnian government officials and international observers,

who arrived just days after Sanski Most fell to the Bosnian

Army, confirm that 11 bodies were found, and report that

another 110 dead were found in the town and surrounding

villages.



OBSERVERS TO BE STATIONED AT SERB COMMANDS

The UN will begin assigning its military observers to all

Bosnian Serb corps commands today.  The UN HQ in Sarajevo

announced that this was decided by General Janvier and

General Smith, in order to better observe the situation in

the field and the cease-fire.  Twelve officers of the UN

peace force will be assigned to the commands immediately,

and an additional 12 in the next two weeks.  UN officials

believe the situation in Bosnia has changed drastically in

the past two months and that it is now safe for observers,

who have been taken hostage by the Serbs several times in

the past.



CLINTON UNABLE TO PERSUADE CONGRESS

U.S. President Bill Clinton has not managed to persuade the

members of the Congress of the need for U.S. troops to take

part in the implementation of peace in Bosnia.  Newt

Gingrich, the speaker of the lower house, said that it was

evident that the U.S. president had less support on the

issue than he had a month ago.  According to Clinton, the

U.S. troops would arrive in Bosnia only if the peace-talks

in Dayton resulted in a peace-settlement.



Meanwhile, U.S. Secratary of State Warren Christopher said

talking to the press late last night that it was possible

for the NATO forces not to be deployed in Bosnia if the

leaders of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko

Mladic,  who have both been accused of committing war

crimes, remain in power.  Christopher went on to say that

all those who have committed war crimes should be brought to

justice.



MORE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

Another humanitarian aid convoy departed for Gorazde

Wednesday morning.  The first civilians crossed over the

bridge linking Sarajevo with Serb-held Grbavica.  On

Tuesday, 14 trucks and buses successfully travelled in and

out of Sarajevo, while 700 vehicles were reported to have

passed the route by the airport and over Mt. Igman.



ELECTIONS

The final results  of the 1995 elections will not be

released this Friday but instead next week, due to the

voting being repeated in some polling stations in Rijeka,

Pozega, and Dugo Selo, where the voting was not carried out

properly.



NEW ENVOY FOR FORMER YUGO

Mr. Kofi Anan had officially taken over the post of the UN

Secretary Generals Special Envoy for the former Yugoslavia.

Mr. Anan is replacing Japanese Diplomat, Jasushi Akashi.

Mr. Anan will go on his first mission as the new special

envoy to Moscow, where he will meet with Russian Foreign

Minister Andrej Kosirev.





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OHIO PEACE TALKS

Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman departed on Thursday

from the peace talks being held in Dayton, Ohio.  The

Croatian government delegation at the talks will be

henceforth headed by Foreign and Deputy Prime Minister,

Mate Granic.



Meanwhile, mediators on Thursday presented the three

factions, at the Bosnian peace talks, four draft

documents intended as the backbone of a general peace

agreement, according to U.S. State Department Spokesman,

Nicholas Burns.  He said the document comprised an

overall framework agreement and others covering

elections, constitutional issues and agreements on the

separation of military and paramilitary forces.  Burns

added that the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and the

Bosnian Croat Federation had agreed,  as an initial

goodwill gesture, that a few hundred Bosnian and Croatian

refugee families would be allowed to return to their home

towns.



On the issue of the Serb occupied eastern Croatian

regions of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem,

Burns said that U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Peter

Galbraith, and UN Envoy, Thorvald Stoltenburg, would

return  to the region to "re-energize" negotiations.



IZETBEGOVIC PUSHES ISSUE OF WAR CRIMES

Bosnia's President Alija Izetbegovic has pushed the issue

of Serb war crimes in the first private session of the

peace summit and urged those already indicated to be

handed over to international authorities, according to

the British news agency Reuters.

Izetbegovic said he wanted to see Serb President

Milosevic commit himself to see these war crimes stopped,

and that the Bosnian position was that Serbs in Serbia

and Bosnia must live up to their international

obligations by delivering war criminals to the

international war crimes tribunal in Hague.  The message

was that without that commitment there is no peace

process, said a source close to the talks.



MILOSEVIC WANTS WITHDRAWAL OF KARADZIC AND RADIC

The independent Belgrade radio station called "B 92", has

stated that Serb President Slobodan Milosevic wants the

withdrawal of Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic and

his militia leader Ratko Mladic  from their positions.

Such possibilities were discussed in Serb talks before

the Dayton Summit.  The radio source continued that

Milosevic did not only insist on such actions because of

international pressure, but also because he could not

fully depend on at least one of the two mentioned Serbs,

to fully listen to his commands.  The radio said though

that they could not confirm whether the Bosnian Serb

leadership had gone along with Milosevic's demand,

especially since they had rejected such a request at

their first joint meeting.



FRONT LINES QUIET

All front lines are quiet in Bosnia and Hercegovina,

while UN military observers have noted only minor armed

skirmishes.  Such incidents have been especially noted in

Sarajevo in the last 24 hours, with shots being fired in

the center of the city.



SERBS HOLD JOURNALIST HOSTAGE

The UN said it hoped to get a U.S. journalist being held

by the Bosnian Serbs, released  and returned to Sarajevo

later today, according to UN Spokesperson, Juri Chiyhik

in Sarajevo.  He stated that the UN had received

assurances from the Bosnian Serbs that the Christian

Science Monitor journalist, David Rhode, was safe and the

a Bosnian Serb command had been given not to harm him.





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OHIO PEACE TALKS

The peace talks in Dayton, Ohio continued yesterday.

Officials estimate that the talks should last for about

two weeks.  At the center of the talks are draft

documents, which have been put forward by the United

States, and which form the backbone to peace in the

region.  According to news agency sources, it seems that

Serb President, Slobadan Milosevic, has become angry

because he has been asked to make some more concessions.

They include, getting rid of Bosnian Serb political and

militia leaders, namely Radovan Karazdic and Ratko

Mladic, recognizing the Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina,

and guaranteeing human rights for minorities in Serbia.



NO AGREEMENT SIGNED

Local Croatian Serbs from the occupied eastern Croatian

region of eastern Slavonia have rejected the latest draft

peace agreement proposed by U.S. Ambassador, Peter

Galbraith and UN Peace Mediator, Thorvald Stoltenburg,

according to French

Press.  The chief negotiator for the local Serbs, Milan

Milanovic, said that the Serb side had turned down

Galbraith's and Stoltenburg's plan, and had countered

with their own version of an agreement.  The Serb version

though, was unacceptable to the mediators and therefore

no agreement was signed.  It included that occupied

eastern Croatia be put under UN control for three years,

while the Croatian government has put forward a limit of

only one year.  The Serbs have also recommended that a

referendum be conducted after three years, so as to

determine the future of the region.



MOSTAR MAJORS JOIN OHIO PEACE TALKS

The European Union Administrator, Hans Koshnik, and the

two Mostar Majors, Safet Orucevic and Mijo Brajkovic,

have been called to join the peace talks in Dayton, Ohio.

A spokesman for Koshnik stated that it was an unexpected

invitation, but that it could be explained by the current

situation in Mostar, and the wish of the international

peace mediators to reach an overall peace settlement.

Koshnik, Orucevic, and Brajkovic are expected to leave

for  Dayton sometime today.





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LAST SESSION OF OUTGOING GOVERNMENT

The last session of the outgoing Croatian government was

held in Zagreb on Monday night and was presided over by

President Tudjman.  The President said  that despite

problems it had faced, Croatia has managed to evolve into a

respected member of the international community, the

reputation of which the outgoing government had helped

create.  He went on to say that the government successfully

fullfilled its tasks in resolving  important economic issues

including the stabilization program and the introduction of

the national currency - the Kuna. The President also named

the new deputy prime ministers and other members of the new

government.



The outgoing Prime Minister, Nikica Valentic, thanked both

the President and the members of his cabinet for their

support during the nearly 1,000 days of him being prime

minister, while the newly appointed Prime Minister, Zlatko

Matesa, praised Mr. Valentic's work.



DAYTON PEACE TALKS

The United States has sent Assistant Secretary of State,

Strobe Talbot, to the peace talks in Dayton, said State

Department Spokesman, Nicholas Burns.  Talbot is expected to

meet with Russian Deputy Foreign Minster, Igor Ivanov to

talk about problems related to Russian troop participation

in the internatioanl forces which would implement a Bosnia

Peace agreement.



Burns said that the focal point of the talks over the past

weekend was the general agreement and the Bosnian

Federation.  He also said that so far an ambitious draft

agreement has been drawn up which would bring about progress

in the work of the federation and the improvemnet of

coordination between its members.



Elizabeth Rehn, the UN human rights investigator is also in

Dayton where she called on the Serbs to allow access to

Banja Luka, while the EU representative, Karl Bildt met over

the weekend with Serbian President Milosevic and Croatan

Foreign Minister, Mate Granic.



NEGOTIATIONS FOR EASTERN SLAVONIA

The State Department Spokesman, Nicholas Burns, said that

there was no justification for the use of force in eastern

Slavonia and that the U.S. administration is convinced that

the problem would be resolved at the negotiating table.

Burns went on to say that the U.S. Ambassador to Croatia,

Peter Galbraith, and the UN Peace mediator, Thorvald

Stolenburg, would be staying in eastern Slavonia untill

Wednesday after which talks in Dayton, between Presidents

Tudjman and Milosevic, would continue.  Burns called on the

local Serbs to retrun to the negotiating table and stressed

that only a compromise would bring about a peaceful

solution.



BOSNIAN-HERCEGOVIAN DRAFT CONSTITUTION

According to a New York Times article, the draft Bosnia and

Hercegovina constitution would barr the current Bosnian Serb

leader, Radovan Karadiz from assuming any of the posts and

would create the conditions for a court procedure to be

opened against Serb leaders in Bosnia, as it calls for all

those who have been accused of war crimes by the

international war crimes tribunal in the Hague not to be

allowed to become officials of either the presidency of the

parliament.  Under this draft constitution, the presidency

would be made-up of 9 members, two thirds from the Bosnian

Federation and one third Bosnian Serbs.  The presidency

would be elected for a four-year period and also a 9 member

constitutional court would be set-up.



INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AGREEMENT

The Croatian Defense Ministry and the International Committe

of the Red Cross have signed a co-operation agreement for

this and next year.  The agreement, which is aimed at

familiarizing Croatian soldiers with the provisions of

international humanitarian laws, was signed by the head of

the Defense Ministry's political wing, General Ivan Tolj and

head of the Red Cross delegation in Croatia, Alex

Braunwalder.  The ICRC has been working in co-operation with

the Croatian army on such matters since 1992.



INTERIOR MINISTER IN TURKEY

The Interior Minister, Ivan Jarnjak, is currently in Turkey

for a two day official visit.  He is to meet with his

counterpart, Teoman Unusan, and sign an agreement on curbing

terrorism and other criminal activities.  The two ministers

have discussed the issue of the Bosnian police forces

regarding the creation of safe conditions for the return of

Bosnian refugees to Velika Kladusa as soon as possible due

to worsening weather conditions in the region where they

have been temporarily accommodated and based on an agreement

recently signed by President Tudjman, Izetbegovic and

Demirel.



OFFICE FOR REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PEOPLE CONFERENCE

The agenda of  today's press conference by the government's

office for refugees and displaced people, was that the

return of refugees would be carried out in line with the

agreement reached between President's Tudjman and

Izetbegovic.  It was also said that the committee in charge

of the return was being set-up and that it would be made up

of three representatives from Croatia, Bosnia and the

Bosnian Federation. The office's Secretary General, Josip

Esterajher, said that some 11,500 people have returned to

the Bosnian Federation territory so far, while this number

is expected to rise to 15,000 by Christmas.



MORE REFUGEES RETURN TO VELIKA KLADUSA

A UNHCR Spokesperson said that another 103 muslim refugees

that were staying in Kupljensko have returned to Velika

Kladusa.  The organized return has commenced last Monday and

so far some 183 people have returned.  The spokesperson

stressed that the return was organized on a voluntary basis.



INTL. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL

The chief prosecutor of the international war crimes

tribunal for crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia,

Richard Goldstone has asked for the help of the U.S. in

gathering evidence and information for the prosecution,

according to today's edition of the Washington Post.  His

request is related specifically to information the U.S. has

as to what happened immediately after the fall of the Muslim

enclave of Srebrenica in Bosnia.



UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS

The election committee has issued  unofficial results of

Sunday's repeated elections at 15 polling places.  The

election results have changed in the Dugo Selo electoral

unit where the Croatian Democratic Union candidate, Ivica

Gazi, beat the joint opposition candidate, Zdenko Haramija.



SARAJEVO GAS SUPPLIES

The Sarajevo gas supplies have run into trouble once again,

but this time due to technical difficulties, as a lot of gas

is being lost due to make-shift pipes through which it is

received.  According to UNHCR experts some 1 million dollars

worth of gas will be used up in November.





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