SERB ARTILLERY ATTACKS ON BRCKO FREE ZONE

ZOVIK, May 5 (Hina) - On the Brcko battlefield (northern Bosnia- Herzegovina) the Serb aggressors fired 10 artillery shells at civilian targets in the western and southeastern parts of the Brcko free zone in the last 24 hours, reported the local command of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) on Thursday afternoon. Through a corridor linking the Serb-held areas in B-H and Croatia to Serbia proper with its narrowest part on the Brcko battlefield the Serb aggressors are constantly transporting their infantry and artillery reinforcement. NATO airplanes have started today to overfly the Brcko free zone controlled by the HVO and the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Military observers are being positioned along the confrontation line in the Brcko crisis area," U.N, Protection Force (UNPROFOR) spokesman Matthew Nerzig said at today's press- conference in Zagreb. He added that four military observers had arrived in the area under Croat control last week, whereas two groups with eleven and five observers respectively were deployed in the area under control of the B-H army. The UNPROFOR head for civilian affairs, Sergio Vieira de Mello visited Brcko on Thursday to hold talks with Bosnian Serbs on deployment of UNPROFOR observes in the area under Serb control as soon as possible, said the UNPROFOR spokesman today in Zagreb. 052129 MET may 94