UNHCR TO SEND RELIEF CONVOY TO BIHAC

ZAGREB, March 23 (Hina) - The UN High Commission for Refugees today was granted permission by rebel Serb authorities in occupied Croatian areas to send a humanitarian aid convoy to the Bihac pocket in nortwestern Bosnia. The ten-truck convoy would start on Friday and would travel via Licko Petrovo Selo to avoid the possibility of being stopped by renegade Moslem forces, the UNHCR spokeswoman in Zagreb, Alemka Lisinski, said. However, the UNHCR was not planning to resume sending humanitarian supplies to the UN protected areas of Croatia as it had been demanded by local Serb authorities, Lisinski stressed. The Bihac enclave has not seen a UNHCR convoy since last Friday. (hina) vm 231328 MET mar 95