31.   It reported that Croatian Serb soldiers had seized weapons from U.N.-guarded collection sites and had crossed in convoys into Bosnia.

32.   It was the second time in two days that Serbs entered weapons collection sites.

33.   Meanwhile, two French peacekeepers were in their bunkers at a U.N. weapons collection site in a tense standoff Sunday with Bosnian Serbs.

34.   On Wednesday, Ukrainian peacekeepers dissuaded them from removing a weapon from a collection site.

35.   Serb fighters began turning over heavy weapons to U.N. collection sites near Topusko, said Maj. Rita LePage, a U.N. spokeswoman.

36.   Serbs raid UN-monitored weapons collection site.

37.   Some rebels, however, were visibly annoyed when told by NATO troops that they could not drive along the road past the weapons collection site.

38.   The Bosnian Serbs had been under threat of NATO airstrikes after they failed to comply with an ultimatum to return the four weapons to U.N.-guarded collection sites.

39.   The exclusion zone has been non-existent since Serbs took hostage hundreds of peacekeepers, including those monitoring the weapons collection sites, following limited NATO airstrikes in late May.

40.   The second phase, weapons collection, will begin as soon as the collection sites are established.