AKASHI, DE LAPRESLE IN SARAJEVO, MEET WITH BOSNIAN PREMIER

SARAJEVO, May 3 (Hina) - The UN secretary general's special representative for former Yugoslavia, Yasushi Akashi, and the commander-in-chief of the UN Protection Force, General Bernard de Laprele, visited Sarajevo on Tuesday where they met with Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic for talks on the situation in Gorazde and the resumption of peace talks, a Hina reporter in Sarajevo said. Following the talks, Silajdzic said the two problems were linked and added that no serious peace talks could be expected to resume until the situation in Gorazde had been normalized. He asserted that Serb troops were still one kilometre from the very centre of Gorazde, in the villages of Zupcici, Kolijevke and Kasagici on the right bank of the River Drina. He noted that Serb forces still had not pulled heavy weapons out of the exclusion zone. Akashi pointed out that stabilization of the situation in Gorazde was progressing according to schedule, but that some problems still remained. He went on to say that more UN peace- keepers would be deployed in the northern Brcko area despite a shortage of manpower. 031715 MET may 94