SERBS ABUSE BRITISH U.N. SOLDIERS IN ROGATICA, SAYS UNPROFOR

SARAJEVO, My 14 (Hina) - U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) spokesman Eric Chaperon in Sarajevo confirmed on Saturday that Bosnian Serbs in Rogatica (some 30 km. E. of the Bosnian capital) abused British UNPROFOR engineers on their way back to Sarajevo from Gorazde on Thursday. The UNPROFOR convoy with three vehicles passed without difficulty the town of Rogatica, but was blocked later on at the Serb check-point of Podromanija. The Serbs accused the convoy's head of violating a passing procedure and ordered him to return the convoy in Rogatica. In Rogatica he was forced being held at gunpoint to read his "confession" that the British soldiers had violated the procedure. Only after the threat the convoy was allowed to continue its trip to Sarajevo. UNPROFOR head for civil affairs in Bosnia-Herzegovina Viktor Andrejev went yesterday to the Bosnian Serbs' stronghold of Pale where he held talks with Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic. Andrejev issued a severe protest with Karadzic during the talks due to Thursday's incident. According to Chaperon, Karadzic offered an apologize saying that this had been the case of the arbitrariness of local military commanders. Small arms fire and explosions ten grenades were registered last night in a heavy weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo by U.N. military observers. A spokesman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sarajevo, Kris Janowski told journalist at today's press conference that two members of a Saudi relief agency had disappeared in the area of Mount Igman on 8 May 1994. The Sarajevo office of UNHCR said that perhaps the perhaps two Saudi relief workers had lost their way at mountain roads and gone toward the town of Hadzici under Serb control. Contact with the Serb authorities in Hadzici has yielded no result so far, but UNHCR is continuing its search for the missing humanitarian workers. 141715 MET may 94