SARAJEVO, AUG 8: US envoy Richard Holbrooke, crisscrossing the Balkans to save his peace plan, won agreement among Bosnian leaders early today on dividing up ambassadorships. However, there were no breakthroughs on any of the other key issues under discussion by the leaders of postwar Bosnia, including the surrender of war crimes suspects to the UN tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

Bosnia's three-man presidency heads an ineffective federal government of Muslims, Serbs and Croats that is supposed to be binding the two halves of the country back together.

Nations overseeing the peace in Bosnia say the 31 Bosnian foreign ambassadorships must be divided equally among Muslims, Croats and Serbs. An earlier agreement was held up by each side's desire to secure the US posting, considered the most influential.

The solution hammered out foresees the US posting going to the Bosnian Serbs.

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