DISPLACED PERSONS KEEP BLOCKING U.N. CHECK-POINTS

NOVA GRADISKA/ZADAR/NOVSKA, July 7 (Hina) - Displaced persons accommodated in the Nova Gradiska area keep blocking roads towards UNPA West in a protest against UNPROFOR's inefficacy. They set up their check-points in Gorice and Cernicka Sagovina. Protesters are handing over to UNPROFOR members leaflets in English and Croatian with excerpts from the Vance peace plan. In the Zadar-Knin County, displaced persons will block UNPROFOR check-points in Jasenice, at the foot of Mount Velebit, and Zemunik Donji on Saturday, 9 July, until their demands are fulfilled, said head of the local association of displaced persons Radoslav Bobanovic at today's press conference in Zadar. He added that they do not protest against UNPROFOR personnel, but they call on the international community to understand unbearable position of exiled people. Displaced persons in Novska blocked the Krapje-Jasenovac road near Drenov Blok which UNPROFOR vehicles had used as a roundabout road in the last five days from free territory of Croatia to the occupied areas. In that way, UNPROFOR vehicles avoided the blockade on the Brocice-Jasenovac road. Now, displaced persons in the area of Novska are only allowing vehicles of Caritas and Merhamet (humanitarian agencies) and refugees from the Banja Luka area (north-western Bosnia) to freely pass blockades. 071237 MET jul 94