BOSNIAN ARMY TO WITDRAW FROM POSITIONS ON MOUNT ZVIJEZDA, PREVIOUS

PREVIOUS $ LY CONTROLLED BY HVO VITEZ, Aug 4 (Hina) - A joint session of representatives of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina was held last night in Vitez (central Bosnia) because of Monday's raid of the Bosnian army's troops to positions previously controlled by the Bobovac-Vares HVO units on Mount Zvijezda (some 30 km. N. of Sarajevo). The session was attended by representatives of the joint headquarters of the Bosnian army and HVO, Brigadier Kemal Hindic and Ante Malisan, the Vitez HVO commander, Filip Filipovic, the Bosnian army's General Vahid Karahem and the command of the Bobovac-Vares HVO units. The participants assessed the current situation in the area and agreed that Bosnian army's troops should withdraw from the captured positions on Mount Zvijezda by 12:00 hrs Thursday, August 4. By the same time the Bosnia army is to return all arms to the Bobovac-Vares HVO units, which they seized on August 1. At yesterday's meeting it was also agreed that the Bosnian army's forces should withdraw to the disengagement lines that had existed in the time of signing a peace accord. The joint headquarters of the Bosnian army and HVO assumed a task to send an expert commission to the ground to resolve all contentious issues in this crisis area in the spirit of the peace accord between the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Croatian Defence Council. (hina) mm 041345 MET aug 94