UN VEHICLE FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO FORCE ITS WAY THROUGH ROADBLOCKS

ZAGREB, July 6 (Hina) - Displaced persons from the occupied towns of Stara Gradiska, Gornji Bogicevci and Okucani on Wednesday extended the blockade to all byroads leading to UN Sector West, after discovering that UNPROFOR used them instead of major routes to avoid roadblocks. Displaced persons from UNPA South on Wednesday blocked a UNPROFOR checkpoint on the Pakovo Selo-Zitnic road in Sibenik County. In Sisak area (50 km S. of Zagreb) a vehicle driven by members of the Ukrainian battalion last night forced their way through roadblocks at Nebojan, but were stopped a few miles later, at a pontoon bridge across the Kupa River, which was also blocked. The vehicle was directed back to UNPA North. UNPROFOR helicopters fly over the blocked roads several times a day. Nationwide protests against UNPROFOR's inefficiency, staged by the Union of Refugees of Croatia, began on July 1 and will last until the expiry of the UNPROFOR mandate on September 30. 061538 MET jul 94