(30 Nov 1994) Eng/Nat

UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is in Sarajevo to discuss whether to pull US peacekeepers out of the country.

He's calling for a ceasefire if the peacekeepers are to remain.

Bosnia's President Izetbegovic told him there'll be no more concessions from the Bosnian government.

Security was tight as UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali arrived in Sarajevo.

UN spokesman Thant Myint-U said earlier Boutros-Ghali wants a ceasefire and an end to harassment of UN peacekeepers. Without that, the UN's mission could end.

Boutros-Ghali had talks with Bosnia's Muslim president Alija Izetbegovic and other senior government officials.

Izetbegovic told Boutros-Ghali Bosnia would negotiate only when the Serbs accept the contact group's peace plan. But that's a proposal they've repeatedly turned down.

Today's talks went on for two hours and were described as long and positive.

However, Izetbegovic said Boutros-Ghali had no new plan to offer for a political end to the conflict.

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was supposed to take part in the talks but he and Boutros-Ghali couldn't agree about where to meet.

Sources said Karadzic did not want to travel to the Sarajevo airport to meet Boutros-Ghali and the Secretary-General would not go to Serb-held Lukavica.

Meanwhile, the Serb offensive on the Bihac enclave in northwest Bosnia continued yesterday, with heavy shelling machine-gun and small arms fire. However, the UN say it was quiet overnight.

There have been unconfirmed reports that some Bosnian Serb soldiers had entered the outskirts of Bihac, which now holds 70,000 people.

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