ARMS CONTROL PACT SIGNED IN FLORENCE

FLORENCE, June 14 (Hina) - The Ministerial conference on the implementation of the Dayton peace accords for Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday ended with the signing of a sub-regional arms control pact. The signing of the agreement on arms control was almost threatened at the last moment by an incident caused by a Bosnian Serb representative Aleksa Buha. When all signatories and witnesses gathered in the hall and when the document was laid before Buha for him to sign it, he asked about a second sheet of paper, expressing his doubt that the document before him was the only one, but said that there was another which he had not received. There was some confusion and the host of the ministerial conference, Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, reiterated several times that the document before Buha was the only one and that there was no other. When the people gathered thought that the document was not going to be signed, Buha said he believed Dini and signed the agreement. After him, the agreement was signed by representatives of the other four sides - Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia and Bosnian Federation. Representatives of the Contact Group, European Union, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and UN signed as witnesses. (hina) lm jn 141816 MET jun 96