Another participant emphasized that Mr. Izetbegovic preferred that an American oversee any transition to peace in Sarajevo, the embattled Bosnian capital.

Fighting also raged in central Croatia and around Osijek, the embattled capital of the eastern Slavonia region, where Croatian military officials reported 11 people killed and 47 wounded today.

In Ramadi, the embattled capital of Anbar Province, polling stations stood largely empty.

Heavy fighting in Kigali, Rwanda's embattled capital, prevented a UN plane carrying relief supplies from landing on Sunday, a UN spokesman said.

Mortar fire prevented UN planes from landing in the embattled capital with desperately needed food and medicine for the second consecutive day, UN spokesman Abdul Kabia said.

A UN envoy called off a trip to Kigali on Monday despite a shaky truce in Rwanda's embattled capital, saying neither rebels nor government forces could guarantee his security.

The United Nations suspended all relief operations in Rwanda's embattled capital Kigali after a Senegalese peacekeeper was killed in a shell blast Tuesday, UN officials said.

In September, Ulvang spent two days in Sarajevo, the embattled Bosnian capital, as a representative of the Lillehammer-based project Olympic Aid.

There were reports today of a respite in the bombing of the embattled capital of Chechnya, as ordered by Boris N. Yeltsin.

On August 11, 1996, Khadzhiev was killed while attempting to leave Grozny, the embattled capital of Chechnya, by car with his wife and young son.