UNPROFOR ON SERB TANK IN SARAJEVO WEAPONS-EXCLUSION ZONE

SARAJEVO, May 7 (Hina) - On Friday at 15:00 hrs U.N. Protection Force members held up a tank of Bosnian Serb forces, located in the barracks of Lukavica near Sarajevo. Bosnian Serb forces planned to transport the tank to the village of Trnovo, 30 km. south of Sarajevo, U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) spokesman in Bosnian capital, Eric Chaperon, said today. However, U.N. military observers noticed at about 17:00 yesterday another Serb T-34 tank entering the weapons-exclusion zone near the Bosnian Serb political headquarters of Pale, 20 km northeast of the Bosnian capital. The tank transported on a carrier and escorted by several other army vehicles, was heading toward Sarajevo. UNPROFOR spokesman Chaperon could not say what had happened with the tank later on. He said that the tank might be left from the carrier near the bob-sled run on the Mount Trebevic, south of Sarajevo, just a few hundred metres far from the besieged city's residential suburbs. Several Serb tanks, escorted by UNPROFOR, had already crossed the Sarajevo exclusion zone during the last week. A convoy of UNPROFOR was attacked just before 10:00 hrs yesterday in the vicinity of the Sarajevo airport. The commander of the U.N. troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Michael Rose, was in the attacked convoy. Spokesman Chaperon said that UNPROFOR members could not establish who had opened fire at the convoy. The situation in Gorazde was still relatively calm. Occasional violations of a cease-fire were registered northeast of the town. U.N. experts managed to make some repairs on the waterworks in the town, so that a part of Gorazde started to get water supplies since Friday. 071758 MET may 94