The Conditions Put Forth Chief among them was the establishment of corridors linking Serbian-controlled areas.

It might be a good idea to make sure that Stepano stayed in Greece, should the team need to cross over into Serbian-controlled areas.

Since then more than 12,000 Serbs have fled into Serbian-controlled areas of Bosnia, international aid organizations say.

With the ultimate political authority and status of their villages unsettled, many civilians in the Serbian-controlled areas are preoccupied with insuring that they have basic necessities.

Most fled when the Croatian Army carried out its own "ethnic cleansing" during military operations against Serbian-controlled areas in August 1995.

American troops and international officials working in Serbian-controlled areas of Bosnia were warned to be alert for possible retaliation from Bosnian Serb nationalists.

The shadowing has been carried out by planes based at Banja Luka in the Serbian-controlled area of Bosnia.

Ahmet Fazlic, a 51-year-old factory worker, said the artillery rounds appeared to have been fired from one of two nearby Serbian-controlled areas.

Ten miles south of the river crossing, the road passes through the corridor that links eastern and western Serbian-controlled areas of Bosnia.

Srebrenica remains in the Serbian-controlled area.