UNPROFOR RECEIVES NO ORDER TO WITHDRAW FROM BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, Aug 4 (Hina) - A spokesman for the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Sarajevo, Major Rob Annink, said today that the UNPROFOR commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina, General Michael Rose had received no order that the U.N. staff and the blue berets should withdraw from Bosnia within next three months. Annink said this while commenting on an article of the Italian LA REPUBBLICA which had underlined that UNPROFOR would leave Bosnia within three months. The article in LA REPUBBLICA also wrote that such an order was issued by Boutros Ghali to General Rose personally. Spokesman Annink declined to say whether any of the statements in this article could be true. He added that he could say only that his commander, Gen. Rose, did not have at the moment any instructions on the blue berets' withdrawal from Bosnia. General Rose is touring today western Bosnia, where severe clashes have been raging between the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina and forces loyal to Fikret Abdic along with Serbs for some time. (hina) mm 041423 MET aug 94