IFOR SUSPENDS ALL BOSNIAN ARMY FLIGHTS

SARAJEVO, Jul 15 (Hina) - The IFOR command has discontinued all Bosnian army flights, the IFOR headquarters in Sarajevo said on Monday. This punitive measure was applied after a Portuguese NATO patrol discovered, during a surprise check, an arms shipment in a Bosnian army helicopter which was supposed to carry passengers. Instead of passengers, the helicopter carried four rocket launchers and 140 anti-aircraft cannon shells, according to IFOR spokesman Bratt Boudreau. The ammunition was confiscated. Boudreau described the incident as a blatant violation of the military part of the peace agreement. On Friday, IFOR troops confiscated from Bosnian Serbs two 130- mm cannons stationed in a no-arms zone, Boudreaeu said. The cannons were transferred to Sarajevo and would probably be destroyed. NATO soldiers were put on full alert and instructed to intervene if anybody tried to obstruct UNHCR shuttle buses between Banja Luka (the Serb entity) and Zenica (the Bosnian Federation). Serb authorities have made several attempts to obstruct UNHCR traffic in the past few weeks. (hina) jn as 151719 MET jul 96