PRESS RELEASE(93)29                                  12th April 1993


             NATO STARTS OPERATION OF NO-FLY ZONE ENFORCEMENT


NATO started its operation of the no-fly zone enforcement over
Bosnia-Herzegovina at 12 o'clock GMT following the information which
NATO Secretary General Manfred W”rner sent last Friday in a letter to
the UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali. NATO's action is being
undertaken under the authority of UN Security Council Resolution 816
and has been decided by the North Atlantic Council at its meeting on
April 8th 1993.

SACEUR has directed the commanders concerned - CINCSOUTH and Commander
5 ATAF - to take the necessary action. In the initial phase aircraft of
France, the Netherlands and the US are involved in the operation in
addition to the NATO AWACS planes.  

NATO's action in support of the UN follows NATO's decision - set out by
the NAC Ministerials in Oslo in June 1992 and in Brussels in December
1992 - to support on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with NATO's
own procedures peacekeeping operations under the authority of the UN.