BOSNIAN SERBS SHY AWAY FROM GENEVA PRESS CONFERENCE

GENEVA, July 6 (Hina) - Members of the five-nation contact group met in Geneva Wednesday for talks with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and other Bosnian Serb representatives to present them with a proposal for the territorial and political organization of Bosnia-Herzegovina and a map showing internal boundaries between the Moslem-Croat federation and the Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Detials of the progress of the meeting are not known. British, French, German, Russian and US diplomats involved in the contact group refrained from making any statements, but Serb representatives said that their leader Karadzic would hold a press conference at a Geneva hotel following the talks with the contact group. However, neither Karadzic nor any of the members of the Bosnian Serb delegation appeared at the press conference. They allegedly left Geneva immediately after the meeting at the Russian embassy. It is generally believed that such a move confirms previous negative statements by Bosnian Serbs concerning the contact group's proposal. Since Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev is in Belgrade today, where Karadzic has also allegedly gone, the outcome of his talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and an official response from the Bosnian Serbs to the proposal of the contact group are expected. 061601 MET jul 94