DEADLINES MUST BE MET, HOLBROOKE SAYS

SARAJEVO, Jan 18 (Hina) - Deadlines set in the Bosnian peace accord must be met and all sides must fulfill the obligations they had taken, said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke on Thursday afternoon in Sarajevo. Holbrooke flew into Bosnian capital with representatives of all five powers of the Contact Group. #L# After meeting NATO-led Bosnian peace Implementation Force (IFOR) commander Admiral Leighton Smith, international representative Carl Bildt, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic, Holbrooke said that the Contact Group member states were responsible for the political processes in Bosnia. He said he and diplomats representing Britain, France, Germany and Russia, had come to Sarajevo to make clear neither the deadlines nor the contents of the Dayton deal would be changed. He rejected the linkage the government has made between missing people and prisoners and underlined that American diplomatic muscle would be used to solve the problem. "The incentives and pressure for compliance in this, while not unlimited, are much more substantial than some pessimists would have it," Holbrooke said. "Two sides had demanded that the deadlines be postponed and we rejected that," Holbrooke told a news conference, saying the diplomats expected Bosnian government to free the prisoners of war and to accomplish the task by tomorrow, as scheduled. Holbrooke said his colleague, U.S. human rights envoy John Shattuck, was given top-level orders to accompany him to deal directly with government claims Serbs had left names of Moslems off prisoner lists so they could be kept for forced labor. Russian and German representative expressed their governments support to the Dayton accord and readiness to continue offering their assistance. Later in the day the diplomats left for Belgrade to meet Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. (Hina) mm bk 182226 MET jan 96