SARAJEVO, Jan 24 (AFP-NT) - Top US human rights official John Shattuck on Tuesday publicly reprimanded Bosnia's former belligerents for failing to meet commitments to release all prisoners. In a blunt statement after talks here with President Alija Izetbegovic Shattuck said he had told the Bosnian leader that "all parties are now in default of releasing all prisoners, and that it is imperative that all prisoners be released. "I expressed to President Izetbegovic the very deep disappointment of the US that all prisoners have not yet been released," the US assistant secretary of state for human rights said. "I was assured by the president that he will continue to release the prisoners," he added. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had the previous day vowed to pressure Bosnian Serbs into a no-strings-attached release of all their detainees. The Bosnian authorities have blocked further releases, in breach of last Friday's deadline for freeing all prisoners of war, demanding Bosnian Serbs provide information on thousands of missing Bosnian civilians. A total of 217 prisoners were released in time for the deadline set under the US-brokered Bosnia peace accord but at least 645 others remain in captivity. The US diplomat discussed the aid the peace Implementation Force in Bosnia would provide to UN war-crimes investigators expected in the country shortly to probe alleged massacres of thousands of civilians. The two men discussed Shattuck's trip to the Srebrenica area of eastern Bosnia where at least 7,000 civilians are still unaccounted for following the overrunning of the former Moslem enclave by Serb forces last July. AFP /AA1234/231239 GMT JAN 96

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