BOSNIAN FEDERATION PRESIDENT MEETS IFOR COMMANDER

SARAJEVO, Feb 29 (Hina) - Bosnian Federation president Kresimir Zubak met IFOR commander Admiral Leighton Smith in Sarajevo on Thursday for talks on the transfer of authority in formerly Serb- held districts of Sarajevo that had reverted to Federation control under a US-sponsored peace agreement. Zubak and Smith agreed in assessment that Bosnian government police that had entered Sarajevo suburbs had not been set up in line with an agreement on the structure of the Federation police force, reached during the Rome meeting of the presidents of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, Zubak's office said in a statement. Zubak stressed that 3,500 Sarajevo Croats, who had fled the Serb-held suburb of Ilidza and found refuge in Kiseljak, demanded that a police force that was to take control of Ilidza be set up in accordance with the Rome agreement. Smith pledged he would support and respect the agreed way of organizing and structuring the federal police. (hina) vm 291925 MET feb 96