BOSNIAN FACTIONS COMMANDERS TO MEET TO ANALYZE WITHDRAWAL

SARAJEVO, Jan 20 (Hina) - Bosnian Croat Forces (HVO) and Bosnian Government Forces commanders were to meet IFOR high officials on Saturday to discuss the situation at the separation zones in order to determine whether all sides have respected the deadline for withdrawal from confrontation lines which had expired at Friday midnight. The meeting will take place at Implementation Forces (IFOR) headquarters in Ilidze near Sarajevo, after which General Michael Walker will issue a statement about what has been acomplished. #L# IFOR representatives in Sarajevo this morning were not able to give information concerning the separation zone situation, although it is assumed that most operations were completed in time and that the only problem would be mines that still remain in the area. After the last night's release of 224 POWs at the Sarajevo airport, the International Red Cross was checking the names of released detainees in order to establish how many of them were on lists submitted by all three sides. It was made available today that the Serbs had released 67 detainees, Croats 30 and Bosniacs 120. Bosnian Government representative for the release of POWs, Amor Macovic, said that the people set free from prisons in Sarajevo and Tarcin were mainly Serbs who had been detained during the war, but were not directly involved with Serb troops. They are people who had been hiding weapons or refused to be recruited into the Bosnian Government Forces. If all detainees freed on Friday, were on lists previously submitted to the Red Cross, then there still remained around 700 people in prisons of all three sides who should unconditionally be released. Assistant US Secretary of State for human rights, John Shattuck, and other US high officials continued their mediation in the endeavour to set free all detainees as soon as possible. Bosnian Foreign Minister, Muhamed Sacirbey, said yesterday that the release would definitely be resumed. (Hina) lm 201410 MET jan 96