Wrenching themselves away from their relatives in emotional farewells in a city parking lot, the women and children climbed into buses after waiting for five hours in sweltering heat and drove away from four months of fighting pitting Serbs against Muslims and Croats. Officials said all those evacuated were Muslims and Croats. Two U. Snipers killed two children during an unauthorized evacuation at the beginning of the month. After passing through the Serbian-held territory west of Sarajevo, the evacuees were to spend the night in territory held by Bosnian defense forces northwest of the capital, officials said.
They are then to proceed to the Croatian port of Split. From there, some go to Slovenia, others to Austria. Meanwhile, the presidents of all six republics that used to make up Yugoslavia have agreed to attend a European Community peace conference Friday in Brussels, a British official said Wednesday.
EC mediator Lord Carrington, announced Tuesday that he had sent the invitations to the presidents of the six republics that formerly comprised Yugoslavia. The official said Milosevic has agreed to attend bilateral meetings before the plenary session Friday afternoon. But it was not yet clear whether he would be staying for the afternoon meeting.
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