ADDITIONAL BRITISH FORCES WILL BE PART OF UNPROFOR, UN SAYS

SARAJEVO, May 31 (Hina) - Britain has offered an additional 5,000 troops as part of with the UN Protection Force in Bosnia, UN spokesman Christopher Gunnes said today in Zagreb. He added that talks on their deployment were underway. "They will absolutely wear blue berets and will be part of UNPROFOR's command and control structure," Gunnes said, adding that the new forces would be integrated into UNPROFOR, which needed reinforcements. Britain offered an additional contingent of 5,000 men for UNPROFOR, of whom five hundred have already arrived. Senior UNPROFOR officials in Sarajevo today gave assurances to the Bosnian government that the newly-arrived British forces would be part of the UNPROFOR structure and would wear UN insignia. The matter was addressed yesterday by Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, who warned in a Sarajevo TV broadcast that foreign troops could not be sent to Bosnia without a definite mandate and Bosnian Government consent. The reinforcements that have already arrived will be deployed in central Bosnia, with headquarters in Gornji Vakuf and Vitez. All UNPROFOR's efforts to defuse the present tension in direct contact with Bosnian Serb leaders have been to no avail, and as a result, it has given up such efforts. "If somebody from Pale wants to talk to us, they know where to find us," a UN spokesman in Sarajevo said. (hina) mm as 311543 MET may 95