SITUATION IN SARAJEVO KEEPS DETERIORATING, UN SAYS

SARAJEVO, May 13 (Hina) - After the expiry of a four-month ceasefire, the situation in Sarajevo kept deteriorating and the number of armed attacks kept growing daily. Some 2,211 armed attacks were registered last night in the greater Sarajevo area, UNPROFOR Headquarters said today. Apart from constant small-arms fire on almost all separation lines, some 30 detonations of mortar and shoulder-launcher shells were registered in western Sarajevo suburbs, UN military observers reported. A Serb military official threatened that Serb forces would fire at anyone trying to use the road connecting the Sarajevo suburb of Dobrinja with the airport, including UNPROFOR vehicles. The ban, in effect as of today, included civilian vehicles as well. UN spokesman in Sarajevo Kris Janowski said UN food supplies in Sarajevo had reached critical lows. If the current blockade of humanitarian aid deliveries continued, UNHCR would not be able to distribute the second May round to Sarajevans, Janowski said. The situation would not improve considerably unless the air- lift was resumed. A spokesman for the UN special coordinator for Sarajevo, John Fosseth, today confirmed that Serbs deliberately cut the gas supply to Sarajevo. It was a political decision made at Pale and there could be no technical excuse for it, Fosseth said and added that gas valves were ground in Zvornik. Serbs explained their action as a response to the situation in western Slavonia, sanctions and failure to extend the ceasefire. (hina) rm as 131440 MET may 95