BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO BLAMED FOR GENOCIDE

WASHINGTON, Dec 6, (Hina) - Bosnian ambassador to the United States, Sven Alkalaj yesterday warned that the 'international community had accepted a thoroughly ludicrous idea which would allow the aggressor to continue the bloodshed until the end of the conflict'. Commenting on the NATO ministerial proposal in Brussels that the war in Bosnia would only end at the negotiating table, rather than with NATO action, Alkalaj said the international community was mistaken in this - adding that such a proposal 'didn't work 50 years ago and it's not going to work now'. "If the Contact Group and NATO seriously thinks that Bosnia will stop defending itself, with whatever means regardless of how meagre those means may be, they are wrong," Alkalaj said. "The arms embargo has allowed genocide against the Bosnian people, those who support and advocate the embargo are also supporting and advocating genocide in Bosnia," he said. (Hina) jn sd as 061354 MET dec 94