51.   Since deploying into Bosnia in December the multi-national peacekeeping force has concentrated on securing a separation zone between the former warring parties and overseeing demilitarization.

52.   Since deploying into Bosnia in December the multi-national peacekeeping force, has so far concentrated on securing a separation zone between the former warring parties and overseeing demilitarization.

53.   Spokesman, Colum Murphy, added that returns to the separation zone had also been suspended.

54.   Tension first flared on Monday when the Moslem settlers moved unannounced into Gajevi, which lies in the IFOR-patrolled separation zone but in Serb administered Bosnia.

55.   Tensions have flared on several occasions over the summer in the separation zone where there are hundreds of mainly Moslem abandoned but badly damaged villages.

56.   Spokesman Colum Murphy added that returns to the separation zone had also been suspended.