GRAVE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO, Aug 8 (Hina) - The airlift to Sarajevo might commence again tomorrow, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Peter Kessler, said at today's press conference in the Bosnian capital. The UNHCR warehouses in Sarajevo are almost completely emptied. Only 60 tonnes of flour were stored in the end of last week, and this amount cannot meet the minimum needs of Sarajevans. If the Sarajevo airlift does not start tomorrow, only 15 p.c. of plans on the food supplies for the citizens will be carried out in August, Kessler warns. A UNHCR warehouse at Metkovic (southern Croatia) is also almost empty, he said. The food supplies now stored there are sufficient only for several-day provisions for over a million people in central Bosnia and the area of Tuzla (northeastern Bosnia) who have received humanitarian aid from the Metkovic warehouse so far, according to the UNHCR spokesman. The Bihac area (western Bosnia) is still facing a grave situation. If Serbs in the occupied areas of Croatia (the U.N. Protected Areas) continue blocking the UNHCR vehicles transporting aid to western Bosnia, an airlift has to be established next days for the inhabitants of that region, Kessler told journalists. (hina) mar mm 081358 MET aug 94