<P> The Bosniaks mainly organised into the Army of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine, ARBiH) as the armed forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina were divided into five Corps . 1st Corps operated in the region of Sarajevo and Goražde while the stronger 5th Corps was positioned in the western Bosanska Krajina pocket, which cooperated with HVO units in and around Bihać . The Bosnian government forces were poorly equipped and unprepared for war . </P> <P> Sefer Halilović, Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Territorial Defense, claimed in June 1992 that his forces were 70% Muslim, 18% Croat and 12% Serb . The percentage of Serb and Croat soldiers in the Bosnian Army was particularly high in Sarajevo, Mostar and Tuzla . The deputy commander of the Bosnian Army's Headquarters, was general Jovan Divjak, the highest - ranking ethnic Serb in the Bosnian Army . General Stjepan Šiber, an ethnic Croat was the second deputy commander . Izetbegović also appointed colonel Blaž Kraljević, commander of the Croatian Defence Forces in Herzegovina, to be a member of Bosnian Army's Headquarters, seven days before Kraljević's assassination, in order to assemble a multi-ethnic pro-Bosnian defense front . This diversity was to reduce over the course of the war . </P> <P> The Bosnian government lobbied to have the arms embargo lifted, but that was opposed by the United Kingdom, France and Russia . U.S. proposals to pursue this policy were known as lift and strike . The US congress passed two resolutions calling for the embargo to be lifted but both were vetoed by President Bill Clinton for fear of creating a rift between the US and the aforementioned countries . Nonetheless, the United States used both "black" C - 130 transports and back channels, including Islamist groups, to smuggle weapons to Bosnian - Muslim forces, as well as allowed Iranian - supplied arms to transit through Croatia to Bosnia . However, in light of widespread NATO opposition to American (and possibly Turkish) endeavors in coordinating the "black flights of Tuzla", the United Kingdom and Norway expressed disapproval of these measures and their counterproductive effects on NATO enforcement of the arms embargo . </P> <P> Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence also played an active role during 1992--1995 and secretly supplied the Muslim fighters with arms, ammunition and guided anti tank missiles to give them a fighting chance against the Serbs . Pakistan defied the UN's ban on supply of arms to Bosnian Muslims and General Javed Nasir later claimed that Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, had airlifted anti-tank guided missiles to Bosnia which ultimately turned the tide in favour of Bosnian Muslims and forced the Serbs to lift the siege . </P>

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