PRESS RELEASE (94)90                   22 September 1994


            NATO AIRCRAFT ATTACK BOSNIAN-SERB TANK

Following a Bosnian-Serb attack against a French Armoured
Personnel Carrier (APC) today near Sarajevo, NATO aircraft
attacked a Bosnian-Serb tank which was within the
20-kilometer Exclusion Zone around Sarajevo.

The attack was carried out by one US A10 and 2 UK Jaguars
of NATO Operation
Deny Flight around 18:20 Sarajevo time. The decision to 
attack was made after the UNPROFOR Force Commander,
General Bertrand de Lapresle and Admiral Leighton W.
Smith, CINCSOUTH, agreed it should be carried out in
response to the attack on the UNPROFOR APC.