The UN commander in Bosnia, Lieutenant General Sir Michael Rose, won verbal agreement to a cease-fire from Fikret Abdic, a renegade Moslem warlord controlling 6,000 rebel Moslem soldiers in the Bihac region.
Later, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said agreement was close and the Serbs might sign the cease-fire with the Moslem-led Bosnian government during the course of the day.
Rose told reporters before he left Pale, the Bosnian Serb political headquarters : "I hope we are going to get some conclusion by the weekend."
Rose traveled Wednesday to the Bihac enclave in northwestern Bosnia, where fighting has threatened an initial one-week cease fire that took hold last Saturday. (Reuters, AP)
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