KARADZIC PLEDGES TO WITHDRAW FROM GORAZDE

SARAJEVO, Jun 2 (Hina) - In a letter to UN Special Envoy Yasushi Akashi Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic pledged to withdraw all armed Serb soldiers, policemen and civilians from a two-mile exclusion zone around Gorazde, said UNPROFOR spokesman Rob Annink on Thursday. According to UNPROFOR, the situation in Bugojno, 150 km S.W. of Sarajevo, was rather dramatic yesterday. Both the town and the nearby British UNPROFOR base were pounded with artillery fire for two hours Wednesday. One shell directly hit the base. When another attack was launched in the evening, UN Gen. Van Baalen of Sarajevo HQ telephoned Karadzic's chief-of-staff Manojlo Milovanovic and warned him that the commander of the UNPROFOR base in Bugojno had asked for NATO air support and initiated the procedure. According to Bob Annink, Yasushi Akashi okayed the air strike against Serbian positions at 20:50 hours, but the Serb attacks had ceased a few minutes before. A similar sequence of events occurred on the day before, when the Serbs attacked the Tuzla airport. In both cases air strikes were called for, but were okayed only after a lengthy procedure. When the orders were finally given, the attacks had just ceased. UN military observers said another crisis spot appeared at 20 km N. of Sarajevo. At least 150 shells were exchanged in the Breza area on Wednesday, said Annink adding that heavy fighting was apparently going on between the Bosnian army and Serb guerrillas at the very edge of the Sarajevo exclusion zone. After protracted negotiations, Serb authorities finally released an UNPROFOR civil sector official, Andrea Angeli, from the Lukavica jail a little before midnight. Angeli was detained two days ago on the road to Sarajevo airport, together with four Bosnian citizens. The Serb side only accepted to release Angeli, keeping the other four in jail, said Annink. He could not specify the reason for their arrest. 021813 MET jun 94