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OIC FMs' confce opens in Jeddah

Fahd’s call to lift UN arms ban on Bosnia

From Mahfuz Anam
JEDDAH, Dec 1: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia today appealed to the United Nations to 11ft UN arms embargo on Bosnia to fight the Serbian army
Inaugurating the sixth con ference of the 47-member Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) here, the Saudi monarch also called for a world-wide outrage against what he termed oppression and continuous transgression of the rights’ of the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
'Bosnian people must be allowed to receive arms to protect themselves', he said tn emotion-filled voice.
King Fahd, however, expressed his deep appreciation of the United Nations response to situation, especially its delivery of humanitarian assistance.
The Saudi monarch's call is widely interpreted as a move by the Islamic countries for partial lifting of ban on arms supply to the besieged Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The two-day meeting is expected to issue a strongly -worded call on the UN to use force to end what the OIC states term Serb aggression against Bosnian Mus^ms.
This is the second emergency meeting of OIC, on Bosnia-Herzegovina issue following the first one that was held last June in Istanbul. The OIC was established tn 1969 after the worldwide protest against the fire that partially - burnt down the Al Aqsa Mosque.
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The meeting is expected to put .more pressure on the UN to intervene militarily to stop the Serbia aggression. According to QIC sources, a number of Islamic countries have expressed the desire to provide men and money for a UN military force if the Security Council gives the go ahead.
Speaking after King Fahd, thp President of Bosnia-Hc-rzegovina All Izetbegovtc said his people had 'duel-faced friends end determined enemies' which has produced only empty words in his people, while the enemies have got modern arms to 'Undertake what he termed as ‘ethnic cleansing of former Yugoslavia.
He said two million people linked to the East by faith and to the West by education and civilization, was faced with a ■pre-planned' attempt to wipe therti off from the face of Europe. Izetbegovic openly called for armed Intervention by Muslim countries to help 'stop the genocide, either by peace
In an emotion choked voice he appealed "lift arms embargo to bring in limited quantity of defensive weapons. Either defend us, or equip us to defend ourselves.-
Sala Brcssia, President of Albania, which is expected to be granted OIC membership during the session, termed the activities of the Belgrade government as 'mockery of our civilization' and said the argument of rising Muslim fundamentalism in Europe was a ploy to create suspicion between the Muslims and Christians.
He warned that a new Balkan war may be triggered unless the genocide against the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina was brought to an Immediate halt.
Welcoming his countries prospective membership of OIC he said It was an historic event, re-establishing our traditional tics w1»h the Muslim world.' • (
Speaking to the press after the inaugural session, David Owne, co-chairman of the UN-sponsored Geneva Conference on former Yugoslavia defended the UN actions and said the world body was doing whatever it mnld Hr did nnt oinnnrt
the Idea of using force against the Serbians, but said, efforts should be made to diffuse the explosive situation rather than add fuel to 1t.
He. however, said he had seen instances of 'ethnic cleansing' and had condemned it. "We have to introduce the process which will enable people to reclaim their land, their homes."
in Sarajevo, Reuters says, heavy fighting overnight in Bosnia buried the latest truce as moderate Yugoslav premier Milan Panic prepared to stand for the Serbian presidency offering some hope of an end to the cam age.
Bosnian radio reported heavy fighting in a corridor tn northern Bosnia disputed by Serbs and Croats, both of whom need it to link areas under their control.
Fighting was reported to be particularly intense at Gradace, with both artillery and infantry attacks.
There were similar reports from other Croat and Muslem-held towns in northern Bosnia — Brcko, Maglaj, Bihac, DoboJ and Tesanj — blocking the Serbs from forging an unbroken supply corridor from Serb-held areas in Croatia to Serbia Itself.
Meanwhile, NATO plans to tighten the naval blockade of the rump Yugoslav state In the Adriatic by deploying warships in Albanian territorial waters for the first time, alliance sources told agency today.
The sources, who asked not to be Identified, said a formal decision was expected later, this week and that NATO officials were being sent to Tirana to make final arrangements.
The fdea is to make the UN embargo (against Serbia and Montenegro) water tight by closing off the few miles of Albanian territorial waters,' said one source.
A NATO spokesman declined all comment.
Some 35 ships have been stopped and searched in the Adriatic by naval forces of NATO and the Western European Union (WEU) defence grouping since inspection procedures against suspected sanctions busters were tightened earlier this month.