51.   U.N. officials accused the Serbs also of reneging on pledges made Wednesday to allow Sarajevo airport to reopen.

52.   U.N. officials accused the Bosnian Serbs also of reneging on pledges made Wednesday to allow Sarajevo airport to reopen.

53.   German army planes will fly in humanitarian aid when the airport has reopened.

54.   He said the airport would reopen as soon as the water recedes.

55.   A UN spokesman said the airport was reopening to military traffic but that the airlift would remain down.

56.   Albanian authorities said Tirana airport would reopen on Thursday in a further sign normality is returning to the shattered country.

57.   Tirana airport reopened Thursday morning after being closed for a week, but no fligths were scheduled for the day, a security official told AFP.

58.   UNPROFOR spokesman Major Rob Annink said however that the airport was reopening to military traffic.

59.   Turkey, Croatia and Bosnia also agreed on the earliest resumption of flights between Sarajevo, Zagreb and Istanbul once the Sarajevo airport reopens for international flights.

60.   Meanwhile, the situation is gradually returning to normal in Chechnya where the airport in Grozny, the capital, reopened Thursday to civilian traffic.