- Title: CROATIA: U.N. CONCERNED ABOUT REFUGEES IN DVOR AREA
- Date: 9th August 1995
- Summary: ZAGREB, CROATIA (AUGUST 9, 1995)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV U.N. HEADQUARTERS 0.07 2. SV U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, YASUSHI AKASHI, GETTING INTO CAR / DRIVING OFF 0.33 3. SV U.N. SOLDIER GETTING OUT OF CAR 0.38 4. SV E.U. MEDIATOR CARL BILDT GETTING INTO CAR / DRIVING OFF (3 SHOTS) 1.02 5. GV U.N. NEWS CONFERENCE IN
- Embargoed: 24th August 1995 13:00
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- Location: ZAGREB, CROATIA
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- Country: Croatia
- Reuters ID: LVA92W34QD0Y7H22M7CAGVF8SCRO
- Story Text: United Nations (U.N.) special envoy Yasushi Akashi and European peace mediator Carl Bildt met in Zagreb on Wednesday (August 9) for brief unannounced talks.
No details were released on the content of the talks and neither man would speak to journalists after the meeting.
Also on Thursday, U.N. military spokeswoman Rita Lepage told a news conference an aircraft had dropped bombs on a Croatian border area on Tuesday where defeated rebel Serbs and refugees were trapped by fighting.
"At 1743 (1543 GMT) yesterday two MiG-21 aircraft dropped four bombs in the Dvor-Bosanski Novi area, inside Croatia," Lepage said, without identifying the origin of the planes.
Lepage said that, while the planes could not be identified, U.N. observers saw two MiG-21s, with weapons loaded, taking off just eight minutes earlier from Zagreb's Pleso airport and heading in the direction of Dvor.
Western military sources say the Croats are believed to be the only force in the area with this kind of aircraft.
Thousands of Croatian Serbs -- defeated soldiers and civilians -- are stuck in the Dvor area, unable to flee into Serb-held Bosnia because of fighting that has continued despite U.N. attempts to broker a ceasefire.
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