UNCHANGED SECURITY SITUATION IN PAKRAC AFTER EXPIRY OF UNPROFOR MA

MA $ NDATE PAKRAC, April 4 (Hina) - "Since the expiry of the UNPROFOR mandate the security situation has not been changed in the Pakrac and Lipik areas," Nikola Ivkanec, the superintendent of the Pakrac police, said today. The Pakrac area is about 100 kilometres east of Zagreb. UN forces are continuing to carry out their duties at check- points and also at such points in unoccupied parts of the former UNPA Sector West. "This makes some citizens confused, since they have expected that every kind of UN activities should cease in the unoccupied areas with the expiry of the UNPROFOR mandate," Ivkanec said adding that such situation would remain until the operationalization of the new mandate started. Ivkanec said the Croatian authorities would insist that Serb paramilitaries withdraw from the present positions in the Zone of Separation to the positions defined by the Zagreb Agreement. (hina) jn mms 041810 MET apr 95