UNPROFOR'S REPORT ON SITUATION IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

ZAGREB, Nov 1 (Hina) - Fighting in a demilitarized zone (DMZ) of Mount Igman, outside Sarajevo, continued in the last 48 hours, UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) reports said. The French UN peacekeepers had installed another two observation posts in the DMZ, a UNPROFOR spokesman, Paul Risley, told today's press conference in Zagreb. The intensified fighting in the last two days was registered along the front line between Bosnian Army's Fifth Corps and Bosnian Serb forces near Bosanska Krupa, northwest Bosnia. Serb rebels from the UN Protected Area (UNPA) of Croatia, shelled part of the Bihac pocket and Velika Kladusa, west Bosnia. The Serb shelling, launched from the occupied areas of Croatia, wounded several civilians in Velika Kladusa, according to Risley. Another spokesman for UNPROFOR, Michael Williams today said the UNPROFOR commander in the former Yugoslavia, French General Bertrand de Lapresle had "warned" Serb commanders from the occupied areas of Croatia about consequences of their actions in neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina. Risley said there were no signs today of a Serb counteroffensive in west of Bosnia-Herzegovina, as the Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic had ordered to his troops to regain the lost territory. He said about 1000 Serb civilians had fled the area liberated by the Bosnian Army Fifth Corps to the Serb-occupied areas of Croatia, and from 6 to 7 thousand Serbs sought shelter south of the Bihac pocket in Serb-controlled areas. Fighting between the Bosnian Army and Bosnian Serb forces raged near the town of Kupres. The Sarajevo Government-led troops moved forward a front line closer to the town. The Croatian Defence Council (HVO) forces reinforced their positions south of Kupres, UN Spokesman Risley said. A severe protest was lodged with Serbs due to their kidnapping two Bosnian doctors escorted by UNPROFOR troops, while moving toward the eastern Bosnian enclave of Gorazde, he said. Despite several arms incidents in and around Sarajevo on Monday and shooting from small arms at a UN aircraft on Monday the Sarajevo Airport was open and 24 UNHCR, 4 UN and 1 ICRC planes landed there, according to UNPROFOR reports. The situation in eastern Bosnian enclaves deteriorated because of food and fuel shortages. The Serb troops opened fire twice at UN peace keepers in Srebrenica. An anti-aircraft cannon was found in the weapons exclusion zone of Gorazde, and it was believed to belong to the Serb forces, according to the UN observers. UN special envoy for former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi on Monday and Tuesday morning visited Geneva to talk with the International Conference on Former Yugoslavia Co-Chairmen Lord David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg. Akashi was expected to return to Zagreb today afternoon. 011810 MET nov 94