REBEL SERBS DETAIN TWO FRENCH PEACEKEEPERS IN CROATIA

ZADAR, Feb 9 (Hina) - Yesterday's decision by the self-styled assembly of rebel Croatian Serbs to freeze further peace talks with Zagreb prompted UNPROFOR to increase its supervision of the ceasefire, UN Sector South spokesman Alun Roberts told reporters in Zadar today. Roberts said that a Serb leader, Borislav Mikelic, told UN officials last night that the "parliament" decision did not apply to results so far achieved in the implementation of an economic accord with the Croatian government. The decision would suspend further implementation of the economic agreement but the Zagreb-Lipovac highway and the Adriatic oil pipe line, both passing through Serb-held areas, would remain open. Roberts said he was not acquainted with details of the rebel Serb assembly session. But he added that he learnt that Serb deputies had copies of the Zagreb Four contact group plan for Croatia, which they had found in the Croatian daily newspaper Vecernji List, as well as copies of the latest UN Security Council statement calling for economic talks to resume. Speaking of incidents in Sector South, Roberts said that Serb troops had yesterday detained two French peacekeepers in Laskovica, a village in the Sibenik hinterland. He added that the two were taken to Knin for interrogation and were still there. Roberts said that 44 ceasefire violations had been recorded in the Sector this week. He added that this number of ceasefire breaches was usual and that they could be attributed to the presence of reconnaisance units inside the zones of separation. (hina) as vm 091535 MET feb 95