AKASHI TO VISIT MOSTAR AND PALE TOMORROW

ZAGREB, July 7 (Hina) - The U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy, Yasushi Akashi, and the chief commander of the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR), General Bertrand de Lapresle, will visit tomorrow Mostar and Pale in order to achieve agreement on the extension of the one-month truce in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is due to expire at noon on 9 July. "The special envoy Akashi and General de Lapresle will meet the deputy president of the Federation of B-H, Ejup Ganic, in Mostar tomorrow morning, and Serb leaders on Pale in the afternoon in order that one-month cease-fire that expires at noon on Saturday might be extended," a spokesman for UNPROFOR, Michael Williams, told today's press conference in the UNPROFOR headquarters in Zagreb. Michael Williams reiterated that the agreement on the cease- fire, signed in Geneva on 8 June, took effect at noon on 10 June. Commenting on the responses of the Bosnian government and the Bosnian Serb leadership UNPROFOR spokesman Williams expressed "restrained optimism" on the extension of the one-month truce. 071548 MET jul 94