ROME, July 17 (Reuter) - Bildt to enquire over Zepa evacuation

European Union foreign ministers on Monday instructed the EU

special envoy for former Yugoslavia to find out if the Bosnian

government wants its civilians evacuated from the threatened

enclave of Zepa.

"We have asked (Carl) Bildt to sound out if this was the wish

(of the Bosnians) and if so the (European) Commission will try to

set up a mechanism to solve this problem," Spanish Foreign

Minister Javier Solana told a news conference.

Solana said the decision was taken following a report on the

humanitarian situation in the region from the EU's Humanitarian

Aid Commissioner Emma Bonino.

"At this moment, I cannot elaborate any further," Solana said.

EU foreign ministers earlier struggled to find common ground on

how to try and save the U.N. mission in Bosnia from total

collapse after last week's fall of the Moslem enclave of

Srebrenica.

Diplomats said they accepted there was virtually nothing they

could do now to save Zepa if the Serbs continued with the present

onslaught, but would try instead concentrate on saving Gorazde

and Sarajevo.