SARAJEVO, August 13 (Hina) - Soldiers of the NATO-led Peace
Implementation Force (IFOR) on Tuesday morning entered a Bosnian
Serb military facility near Han Pijesak, after a resolute demand by
NATO and IFOR officials on authorities in Pale.
IFOR spokesman in Sarajevo Bratt Boudreau said that IFOR
soldiers, led by the commander of the NATO ground force in Bosnia-
Herzegovina, General Michael Walker, headed for Pale aboard four
helicopters where they were joined by Republika Srpska President
Biljana Plavsic and proceeded to Han Pijesak, one of the key
command posts of the Bosnian Serbs' Army, where Ratko Mladic used
to reside.
Boudreau refused the possibility that IFOR soldiers tried to
arrest Mladic on Saturday, pointing out that, just before the
inspection attempt, Bosnian Serbs had been informed of IFOR's
intentions.
After his return to Sarajevo, General Walker would evaluate
whether the inspection brought satisfactory results, while IFOR
units remained on the alert (Operation "Fear Naught") since last
week.
The situation on the ground was relatively calm, said
Boudreau.
Following General Walker's recommendations, several hundreds
IFOR soldiers and all U.N. staff, including international
policemen, withdrew to IFOR headquarters in the Serb entity.
Employees of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),
however, stayed in their offices in Pale and Banja Luka, and
spokesman Chris Janowski said that only a branch office in Brcko
was temporarily closed. The UNHCR staff was ordered to reduce
movement only to the most necessary, while UNHCR-organized bus
traffic between entities was stopped, with the exception of the
Tuzla-Bjeljina route.
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