The houses are in the sliver of Serb territory due to be handed over to the Bosnian government so that it has a corridor from Sarajevo to the currently surrounded town. About 200 Bosnian Serbs from Ustikolina, outside Gorazde, are moving to Foca rather than live under Bosnian government control. The UN protested the eviction of Muslim families by Serbs in northern Bosnia. The US is urging the Bosnian government to send home the roughly 2,000 Mujahideen fighting in the country. The Islamic fighters are from countries throughout the Muslim world, particularly Afghanistan.
Diplomats believe the irregulars are likely to cause problems for implementing the peace settlement.
But it failed to agree on an individual to head its mission, with France opposing the US candidate. Many delegates expressed doubts as to whether the OSCE, which has few resources of its own, is up to the job. By Thursday's scheduled signing of the peace pact in Paris, US commanders want command posts operating in Bosnia so troops can be inserted quickly and safely. While airplanes are carrying out many of the early deliveries, most of the 20,000 US troops destined for Bosnia will travel in armored convoys from a staging area the US is building in Hungary. They'll drive from there to the US sector in northeast Bosnia.