UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi
                      Annan said Friday that he is sending a technical team to Iraq this
                      weekend to map sensitive presidential sites, and that he is making
                      preparations for his own visit to Baghdad.

                      "I expect them to conclude this task in three to four days," Annan
                      said at a news conference after meeting with the five permanent
                      members of the Security Council.

                      Asked if he intended to go to Iraq himself, as he has been
                      encouraged to do by Russia and Iraq, Annan said, "I think I have
                      made it quite clear that I am prepared to go to Baghdad, and the
                      work I'm doing now with the permanent five is in preparation for
                      that visit."

                      Asked what he wanted to hear from the Iraqi government, Annan
                      said, "I would want to hear that they accept the Security Council
                      resolutions and they are prepared to work with us to disarm Iraq
                      and to respect the resolutions of the council."

                      A U.N. source said that two cartographers from Vienna, Austria,
                      will go to Iraq. Nizar Hamdoon, Iraq's ambassador to the United
                      Nations, said they would be welcome.

                      "The team will be arriving in the next couple of days," Hamdoon
                      said. "We wanted to make it clear to the secretary-general that
                      those sites are well-defined...in terms of their boundaries."

State: Indicted Serbs surrender

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) _ The State Department says two Bosnian Serbs wanted for war
crimes have voluntarily surrendered to officers of the International Criminal Tribunal in Bosnia.

The pair had been indicted in 1995 for war crimes allegedly committed in and around the town of
Bosanski Samac.

The State Department identified the Serbs as Yugoslav soldiers Milan Simic and Miroslav Tadic,
who were indicted July 21, 1995, and charged with crimes against humanity.

The International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, has indicted 52 people _ seven
Croats and 45 Bosnian Serbs or Serbs _ some for multiple charges in the four-year war in the
former Yugoslavia.

The State Department emphasized today the ``obligations of the local authorities where indictees are
living.'' It said, ``It remains the responsibility of these authorities to cooperate with the tribunal and to
comply with the war crimes provisions of the Dayton Agreement and relevant U.N. Security Council
resolutions by handing over indictees still at large to the custody of the tribunal.''

The statement said the United States ``holds open all options in dealing with indicted war criminals
still at large.''