EVACUATION OF 17 WOUNDED FROM NOVA BILA ANNOUNCED

VITEZ, Feb 17 (Hina) - An UNHCR high official, Larry Hollingworth, and the Commander of the British UNPROFOR battalion, Brigadier Peter Williams visited on Thursday the Headquarters of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) of Vitez (Central Bosnia). During their talks with the HVO commander, Tihomir Blaskic, Hollingworth and Brigadier Williams discussed several issues of the interest for the two sides. The UNHCR official and Brigadier Williams also announced an UNHCR humanitarian convoy for the inhabitants of the areas of Zepce and Maglaj (some 120 kilometres north of Sarajevo) as well as the forthcoming evacuation of 17 wounded from the Franciscan Hospital of Nova Bila (near Vitez). The wounded will be evacuated together with their families, and 14 of them in Italy, two to the U.S.A. and 1 in Denmark. Assistance was also promised in reconstruction of the plumbing in the town of Novi Travnik (Central Bosnia), damaged in the shelling of the Moslem-led Bosnian Army. 171736 MET feb 94