SARAJEVO, Jan 31 (Hina) - Self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb authorities
today refused to allow UNPROFOR officials to visit Bosnian TV
journalist Namik Berberovic imprisoned in the Serb-held Sarajevo
district of Ilidza.
Serbs kidnapped Berberovic five days ago while travelling in a
UN armoured vehicle to Sarajevo airport, and accused him of
carrying propaganda material.
UNPROFOR spokesman Alexander Ivanko told reporters in Sarajevo
that Serbs held Berberovic as a prisoner of war.
Serbs made it a condition that they would allow UN officials
to visit Berberovic only if foreign journalists were allowed to
visit a Moslem-run prison in Tarcin, Ivanko said.
Ivanko rejected it as blackmail and warned Serbs that
Berberovic was not a prisoner of war but an illegally arrested
civilian.
Top UN officials in Bosnia, including Gen. Smith, would again
call on Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic to release Berberovic.
Ivanko appealed to the press not to let Berberovic become
another number on a prisoners of war list.
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