ALL U.N. CROSSINGS IN CROATIA EXPECTED TO BE OPENED TODAY

ZAGREB, Aug 16 (Hina) - Displaced persons have so far lifted a blockade of 17 out of 19 U.N. crossing points into the UN Protected Areas in Croatia, UNPROFOR spokesman Paul Risley told a press conference in Zagreb today. Risley added that the remaining two crossings - at Lipik in U.N. Sector West and Medak in U.N. Sector South - were expected to be reopened to U.N. traffic later in the day. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, U.N. reports said the situation was mainly calm. Fighting was recorded around, Gradacac, Dastansko and Olovo in northern Bosnia. Risley said that the anti-sniping agreement, signed in Sarajevo yesterday, was mainly observed, with only two minor sniping incidents recorded yesterday. In the Bihac area in the west, the front line between Moslem- led Bosnian government army and Moslem forces loyal to local leader Fikret Abdic was calm. The two sides were expected to resume U.N.- mediated talks tomorrow. A British U.N. peacekeeper died yesterday morning in a mine- disposal operation north of Gornji Vakuf, central Bosnia, and a member of the Croat Defence Council (HVO) sustained serious wounds, Risley said. This was the eighth British U.N. soldier to have been killed on the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. U.N. special representative to former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi is in Sarajevo today for talks with Vice-President of the Moslem-Croat federation Ejup Ganic. (hina) jas vm 161439 MET aug 94