BOSNIA UN DENIES 'COMPLICITY IN ETHNIC CLEANSING' ACCUSATIONS

SARAJEVO, May 13 (Hina) - The UN in Sarajevo today denied the charge of "complicity in ethnic cleansing" made yesterday by Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic. Silajdzic accused UN forces of shipping 9,945 Serbs from western Slavonia accross the Bosnian border without the knowledge and consent of the Sarajevo government. Ivanko confirmed that a group of 243 Serbs from western Slavonia did arrive in northern Bosnia yesterday, but stressed that the peace-keepers' role was limited to making it possible for men, women and children to leave a certain area in accordance with their wishes. Ivanko emphatically asserted that UN had knowledge of only this latest shipment from western Slavonia. "All those who left western Slavonia earlier did so on their own," Ivanko said. (hina) as 131441 MET may 95