TALKS ON ARMS CONTROL CONTINUE

SARAJEVO, April 22 (Hina) - IFOR representatives in Sarajevo said Monday that the issue of final deployment of armed forces and collecting of heavy artillery would be resolved in line with the peace agreement and by a special task force within the framework of the Joint Military Commission. #L# IFOR spokesman Simon Haselock said that IFOR high officials, led by General Michael Willcocks, are to hold separate talks with representatives of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO), the Bosnian Army and Bosnian Serb forces when the issue of withdrawing troops into barracks and removing heavy artillery would be resolved. The issue should have been resolved by April 19. The first separate meetings are to take place this week. NATO Commander, General George Joulwan, told Monday's news conference in Brussels that between 80 and 95 percent of heavy arms had been collected in places selected by IFOR by the end of the time limit called D+120. Some 90% of tanks and 85% of heavy artillery was under supervision, Joulwan said. He stressed that collecting heavy arms did not mean that IFOR's mission was completed. In the next period IFOR troops would supervise whether peace agreement regulations on use and placing of heavy arms are complied with, Joulwan said. (hina) lm jn 221629 MET apr 96