CEASE-FIRE TALKS BETWEEN BOSNIAN ARMY AND UNPROFOR

SARAJEVO, June 15 (Hina) - UNPROFOR spokeswoman in Bosnia Claire Grimes confirmed at a press conference in Sarajevo on Wednesday that UN chief-of-staff General Van Ball and his Bosnian army counterpart General Enver Hadzihasanovic had met in Zenica on Tuesday for talks on the cessation of hositilies. Grimes said that talks were expected to resume on Thursday. The Bosnian army press service said in a statement that the Bosnian side had proposed at the talks that 22 liaision officers be deployed and 63 observer posts be set up in the areas under its control. According to the proposal, observer posts could be set up only on a reciprocal basis, i.e. on the either side of the confrontation line. In a comment on the talks, Bosnian army commander Gen. Rasim Delic said that the Bosnian side insisted that a cease-fire be secured throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the Bihac area in the west. Gen. Delic demanded that a decision on the weapons exclusion zone around the eastern town of Gorazde be fully implemented and that refugees be allowed to return to their homes on the right bank of the Drina river. General Delic stressed that UNPROFOR's mission in western Bosnia was all the more complicated as Bosnian army positions in that region were attacked by both military forces loyal to breakaway Moslem leader Fikret Abdic and rebel Serb forces from UN- protected areas in Croatia. Following an agreement between the Croatian government and rebel Serb authorities from Knin, Serb paramilitary forces stepped up attacks on the Bihac area, Delic said and added that Bosnian army troops successfully repelled all the attacks. 151545 MET jun 94