World IN BRIEF : BOSNIA : Cease-Fire Talks Still Alive, Envoy Says

U.N. envoy Yasushi Akashi said he still plans to get Bosnia’s warring factions together for cease-fire talks. His assurances came hours after his spokesman in Geneva said all such plans had been scrapped. “In this job, life is full of unforeseen developments,” Akashi told reporters as he announced a later meeting with Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic. Akashi said Bosnian Serb leaders had agreed to move their forces from a ridge just inside the exclusion zone around Gorazde and let U.N. peacekeepers take over the position.