HUMANITARIAN AIR-LIFT TO SARAJEVO TO RESUME NEXT WEEK

SARAJEVO, Dec 16 (Hina) - The Sarajevo airport is to reopen tomorrow for UN flights. UNPROFOR Sarajevo headquarters chief commander General Brinkman and Bosnian Serb General Tolimir yesterday agreed to reopening the Sarajevo airport, UNPROFOR officials said today. UN airplanes carrying peace keepers should be able to land on the Sarajevo airport from tomorrow. UNPROFOR today announced two flights with UN soldiers for Saturday. UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Kris Janowski today said that a meeting was convened on Monday of a working group of the countries whose airplanes take part in humanitarian aid delivery. The working group is to discuss security conditions and the possible resumption of humanitarian air-lift. "The air-lift could be established as early as the end of next week," Janowski said. He also said that the airport should be reopened for the medevac of gravely wounded and ill from Sarajevo. Janowski recalled that one seriously wounded person had died several days ago because he could not get adequate medical treatment in Sarajevo, while the other woman was now in critical condition. Military UN spokesman Jan-Dirk von Merveldt declined to say what would be undertaken as regards Serb rockets installed around the Sarajevo airport. "We will maintain only the flights for which we could get guarantees," Merveldt said. (Hina) mar rv mms 161439 MET dec 94