It connects the two halves of the Serb-held part of Bosnia.

They refused to sign, indeed, even though the negotiators had offered a ten-kilometre-wide, UN-controlled corridor linking Serbia to the Serb-held parts of northern Bosnia.

"The Serbs suggested Pale and the Serb-held part of Sarajevo," a United Nations official said.

Also yesterday, a UN spokesman said UN peace-keepers had protested to Yugoslavia over an amphibious exercise by its troops on a Serb-held part of Croatia.

The helicopters took off from the Udbina airfield in the adjacent Serb-held part of Croatia, where NATO has also banned military flights.

What he saw in the Serb-held part of Bosnia made Professor Ingrao despair.

There were initiatives for him to be crowned Prince of the Serb-held part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were rejected by the local political leadership.

Such accounts of the sexual humiliation of Muslims have emerged from many of the camps then operating in the Serb-held parts of Bosnia.

The Serb-held part of the city became a killing zone, he said.

The Pidic family has returned unmolested to the Serb-held part of Bosnia, one family of 150,000 refugees who have gone back to their homes in the last two years alone.