U.N. DISMISSES KARADZIC PLAN AS BID TO MAINTAIN STATUS QUO ANTE

ZAGREB, Dec 15 (Hina) - The six-point plan proposed by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is not a peace plan but an attempt to maintain a 'status quo ante', UN spokesman Michael Williams told reporters in Zagreb today. Speaking of former US President Jimmy Carter's initiative to mediate in the implementation of this plan, Williams said he knew little of it as Carter had not yet contacted UNPROFOR. Williams welcomed any moves that would contribute to peace in Bosnia, but added that it had to be clear that the Contact Group plan remained the only viable peace plan. On the implementation of the recently signed economic agreement between the Croatian government and UNPA Serb authorities, he said the opening of parts of the Zagreb-Belgrade highway which ran through the UNPAs, was still being discussed and there were problems which had to be solved. Commenting on the situation in the Bihac pocket, western Bosnia, UN spokesman Paul Risley said Bangladeshi UN troops stationed at Velika Kladusa had heard tank movements. Risley said six detonations, four of which were caused by missiles, were recorded Wednesday inside the weapons exclusion zone around the eastern Moslem-held town of Gorazde. Several detonations were also registered inside the Tuzla exclusion zone, north-eastern Bosnia. UN special envoy Yasushi Akashi this morning travelled from Split, southern Croatia, to Zenica to meet the Vice President of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ejup Ganic. (Hina) jn sd vm 151712 MET dec 94