A4 Croatian towns were bombed by Yugoslav army jets and tanks despite a cease-fire pact between the army and Croatian leaders.

Mr. Pickering said any Serb violations of the cease-fire pact "would clearly have grave and substantial risks."

The talks, brokered by Norway in an effort to strengthen a sagging cease-fire pact, were deemed a success, considering that when they began Wednesday, the sides could not even agree on what to talk about.

Then this past May, the Sudanese regime and one of the rebel armies signed a cease-fire pact, increasing the pressure for U.N. intervention.

The four warring factions in Cambodia have agreed to sign a cease-fire pact soon, Thailand's Prime Minister, Chatichai Choonhavan, was quoted as saying today.

The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, arrived in Washington asserting that the Palestinians were ignoring a cease-fire pact the United States had arranged two weeks earlier.

One participant said they hoped to have agreed by then on a plan to turn the four-month cease-fire pact into a peace accord.

Mr. Sharon and his aides say a cease-fire pact is not enough, however, that what is needed is to arrest and disarm the militants.

That's when the fact-finding committee was created as part of a cease-fire pact that failed almost instantly.

But some senior United Nations officials had privately questioned the cease-fire pact on Friday, saying it appeared to consolidate recent Serbian territorial gains in eastern Bosnia.