61.  The statement welcomed the release of two French pilots, handed over by the Bosnian Serb military to France on Tuesday, after three months of captivity.

62.  The two aircrafts and their French pilots were held for almost one week before they obtained the necessary papers and were allowed to fly on to Melbourne, Australia.

63.  The western alliance appeared no closer Wednesday to recovering the two French pilots missing for two weeks in Bosnia as NATO insisted the search for them was continuing.

64.  Two days earlier Chirac welcomed back two French pilots held by Bosnian Serbs for more than three months.

65.  Two French pilots are still missing after their plane was shot down early in the current campaign.

66.  Two French pilots missing since being shot down over Bosnia last August are alive, the independent television network BK said on Monday.

67.  Two French pilots missing since late August are alive, a Bosnian Serb officer said Friday in Ilidza, a Serb-held suburb west of Sarajevo.

68.  It will help coordinate British and French pilots working together in such places as northern Iraq and Bosnia.

69.  Last month Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said the French pilots had been kidnapped from a hospital, possibly by Moslems or mercenaries seeking a ransom.

70.  Mladic said the liberation of the two French pilots was largely the result of Russian mediation, the agency added.