LEADERS OF WHITE PATH AT PRESS BRIEFING

ZAGREB, Dec 27 (Hina) - The members of the coordination of the White Path action told a press conference today about their experiences. A participant in the convoy and a member of the Croatian Parliament expressed his conviction that "Croatia has the power, the will and the determination to defend Croats in central Bosnia." A wounded IPA journalist Tsutomu Yamauchi talked about the death of the driver of his truck Ante Vlaic who was killed by Muslim soldiers. He also said that UNPROFOR soldiers answered his requests to help Vlaic answered that "there is no time now!" "If UNPROFOR had helped him Ante would have survived," the IPA reporter said. The president of the White Road action Dr.Miro Jakovljaevic announced that the action will continue to organize aid convoys. "We are preparing a new convoy for Usora," Dr.Jakovljevic said referring to the Croatian town which is surrounded by both Serbian and Muslim formations, and which had not received humanitarian aid for 9 months. The honorary president of the action Dr.Slobodan Lang gave a short comment on the planted military equipment in the convoy by saying that the only aim of that planted material was to annul the agreement between the Croatian Foreign Minister Dr.Mate Granic and the President of the B-H Govt. Haris Silajdzic. 271934 MET dec 93