BOSNIAN PRESIDENT MEETS NATO SECRETARY GENERAL

SARAJEVO, Jan 12 (Hina) - Bosnia's President announced on Friday that a meeting of senior Bosnian and Yugoslav government officials might be staged soon. "I think we may soon expect Yugoslav foreign minister (Milan) Milutinovic to visit Sarajevo, or our (foreign) minister (Muhamed) Sacirbey to go to Belgrade," President Alija Izetbegovic said after meeting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general Javier Solana in Sarajevo, but added the issue was still under negotiations. #L# Reiterating the government's readiness to see the transfer of authority at the currently Serb-controlled Sarajevo suburbs done as smoothly as possible, he also said he and Solana had agreed that the NATO-led peace implementation operation was going well for the time being. Izetbegovic said he, Solana and U.S. General George Joulwan had discussed the situation in Mostar as well, which he described as related mostly to the violation of human rights. He also urged the NATO officials to eventually shed light on the fate of the missing from the once U.N. designated 'safe havens' of Srebrenica and Zepa. Solana pledged that the NATO force would continue all they can in order to accomplish their task, stressing that the basis of their mandate was to oversee the separation of the military factions. "There are many problems yet to be solved, since the peace is not only the absence of war," he said. Solana and Gen. Joulwan were also scheduled to meet Bosnian Serb officials and international representative Carl Bildt. (Hina) bk 121255 MET jan 96