U.N. REPORTS GROWING NUMBER OF INCIDENTS AROUND SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO, Feb 23 (Hina) - In the past 24 hours the UN has registered 174 shooting incidents along the line of separation between the Bosnian government army and Serb forces in the Sarajevo region. UN spokesman Gary Coward today told a press conference in Sarajevo that UN military observers were unable to determine who was responsible for the incidents. UN military observers had sighted helicopters flying over the Mount Igman demilitarized zone. Coward specified that they were Mi-8 transport helicopters the Bosnian army used for supplying its troops on the eastern edge of the Mt Igman demilitarized zone. Serbs threatened to close a 'blue route' linking Sarajevo to Visoko, which passed through Serb-held Vogosca, unless they were delivered certain amounts of fuel every day. UN Civilian Sector spokesman Alexander Ivanko said that Bosnian minister Hasan Muratovic and Serb negotiatior Nikola Koljevic resumed talks at Sarajevo airport yesterday to discuss the freedom of movement along 'blue routes' and the situation in the northwestern Bihac pocket. A joint Bosnian government and Serb task force yesterday met at UN headquarters to discuss the idea of enabling people to choose their places of residence. Ivanko said that the two sides had made substantial progress on the matter. Amir Hadziomeragic, a member of the Bosnian government delegation, said in an interview with the Sarajevo daily "Oslobodjenje" that both sides agreed that offices for the exchange of people should be established. According to Hadziomeragic, citizens would have to inform these offices when they would like to leave and what belongings they would like to take with them. Although no final agreement had been reached on the matter, such offices would be opened in the government-controlled towns of Tuzla, Sarajevo, Mostar, Zepa, Bihac, Gorazde and Srebrenica. Similar offices would also be set up in Serb-held areas - in the Serb-controlled sector of Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Bijeljina, Doboj and Trebinje, Hadziromeragic said. (hina) vm 231559 MET feb 95