UNHCR BEGINS MEDEVAC OPERATION AT GORAZDE

ZAGREB, Jan 31 (Hina) - The UNHCR today began evacuating 130 injured and ill people from the UN-declared Gorazde 'safe-haven' (a Moslem enclave in east Bosnia surrounded by Serbs), UNHCR spokeswoman Alemka Lisinski said Tuesday. The UNHCR is taking the evacuees to Sarajevo where they'll be admitted to the Kosevo hospital. The first group were taken out of Gorazde this morning and the second group left around noon, Lisinski said. The evacuation was carried out by road, and the evacuees were not expected to arrive in Sarajevo until this evening because of poor travelling conditions, she said. "The start of this Medevac had been planned for the beginning of January," Lisinski said, "but we've only just now succeeded in getting all sorts of necessary clearance particularly from Bosnian Serbs. (hina) jn sd mms 311649 MET jan 95