BOSNIA, CROATIA, YUGOSLAVIA FAIL TO INITIAL ARMS CONTROL ACCORD

VIENNA, June 7 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Yugoslavia failed to intial an arms control agreement in Vienna on Friday because they could not agree on the status of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "There is an agreement on arms reduction, but the document has not been initialled because there is no agreement on the status of the parties," Croatian Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Simonovic was quoted by Reuters news agency as telling reporters in Vienna. Simonovic added that there were differences over the wording of the preamble to the agreement. The Sarajevo government insisted that the agreement be signed by three states - Croatia, Yugoslavia and Bosnia- Herzegovina, stressing that the Serbian Republic could be considered only as an entity within Bosnia-Herzegovina and not as a separate state. "We cannot accept one entity being treated as a state. That would be in violation of the Dayton agreement," said the head of Bosnia-Herzegovina's delegation, Mahir Hadziahmetovic. The arms control agreement was scheduled to be signed in Oslo on June 11 by foreign ministers Mate Granic of Croatia, Milan Milutinovic of Yugoslavia and Jadranko Prlic of Bosnia- Herzegovina. The arms reduction talks began in Vienna on January 5 under the chairmanship of Norwegian diplomat Vigleik Eide. They were sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and were to have been finalized by June 6 under the Dayton peace agreement. (hina) vm mm 071834 MET jun 96