ILLEGAL EMIGREES CONTINUE ARIVING IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

SARAJEVO, Sept 14 (Hina) - The Bosnian Serb police on Thursday arrested 12 Iranian citizens near Bosanski Brod crossing who were trying to illegally cross over from Bosnia-Herzegovina into Croatia, a spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Sarajevo said today. The police have continued a search for four armed men who are believed to have helped the emigrees cross the border, spokesman Douglas Coffmann said. Coffmann recalled that another 10 illegal emigrees - four Iraqi nationals, three Iranians, two Tunisians and one Turk - were arrested earlier this week. In the past two weeks alone, the Croatian police returned 309 illegal emigrees to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the U.N. Mission reported. Most of them were Iranians (154), Turks, and Iraqi and Chinese nationals. Coffmann warned that Bosnian authorities were still failing to seriously deal with the problem of illegal emigration. Some of the emigrees who are deported from Croatia to Bosnia- Herzegovina are temporarily accommodated at a reception centre in Bosanski Petrovac, western Bosnia, but there is no evidence that they are banned to countries of origin for violating Bosnia- Herzegovina laws. (hina) rml