462 REFUGEES FROM BANJA LUKA STILL WAIT FOR PERMISSION TO PASS THR

THR $ OUGH CROATIA SARAJEVO, June 16 (Hina) - The Geneva agreement on ceasefire in Bosnia-Herzegovina has been honored, said UNPROFOR Spokesman in Sarajevo Eric Chaperon on Thursday. Members of the U.N. French Battalion stationed in western Bosnia reported heavy fighting between formations loyal to local Moslem leader Fikret Abdic and the Bosnian Army Fifth Corps. French soldiers informed the UNPROFOR HQ in Sarajevo about a thousand detonations registered along the disengagement line between the two sides. Chaperon confirmed today that Abdic's forces lost a part of the territory which was under their control and that members of the Fifth Corps captured about 300 Abdic's soldiers. UNHCR Spokesman in Sarajevo Piter Kessler said today that new refugees arrived in Velika Kladusa because of fighting in western Bosnia. Kessler warned that refugees could not be provided with adequate accommodation there. A group of 462 refugees from the Banja Luka area has still been waiting for a permission to pass through Croatia, Kessler told journalists. These people have already stayed for two nights in Okucani under the protection of the U.N. peacekeepers. The Serb authorities expelled these people from Banja Luka only because of their non-Serb nationality. Among those 462 refugees, there are 259 Moslems from a village near Banja Luka who were forced to leave their homes. Kessler said that many of them told UNHCR representatives that they would never leave their houses if they had not been directly endangered. 161556 MET jun 94