SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, March 13, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

From: Mirjana Petrovic <almirja@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu>

BEOGRAD - The vicepresident of the Republic of Srpska (RS), Nikola Koljevic stated that, other than Austrian, the French and British economists are interested in investment and establishment of economic missions in the RS. "We achieved certain agreements on bilateral economic relations. During my London and Paris visits, British and French economists expressed their readiness to invest their capital into some projects in the RS", stressed Nikola Koljevic.

BEOGRAD - The second RS vicepresident, Biljana Plavsic, assessed it logical that "the RS president Radovan Karadzic and general Ratko Mladic use arms to defend themselves if IFOR at tempts to arrest them". In an interview for the weekly magazine "Telegraf", Biljana Plavsic pointed out that "a shameful institu tion called the Hague Tribunal has right neither to arrest them nor to try them, for Karadzic and Mladic did not commit any crime, and are legally elected representatives of their own people".

SARAJEVO - Representatives of the RS government talked in Pale with an UNDP delegation, led by Joseph van Arendonk, about UNDP's aiding the RS during the next four years. Van Arendonk said the UNDP is an organisation which supports the projects in health and education systems and industry.

SOKOLAC - The special UN reporter for human rights, Eliza beth Rehn, visited the Seat of Dabrobosanska Eparchy where talked with His Eminence Metropolitan Dabrobosanski, Nikolaj, who stressed following the talks that "a lot of time is needed to heal all wounds and to return to the normal course of life". Mrs. Rehn said that in talks with Metropolitan Nikolaj, she felt that she had a great support from the Serbian Orthodox Church which support is of an extreme importance.

PARIS - The International Herald Tribune assessed today that the Serb Sarajevans' exodus sealed the destiny of the ethnical division of the former B-H. As the paper says, the invasion of the Muslims into Sarajevo suburbs and allegations that the IFOR commander, admiral Layton Smith, criticised the Muslim resistance to the federation with Croats as a serious violation of the Dayton agreement.

PARIS - All France media give a full attention to the confer ence of 26 chiefs of states, being held in the Egyptian Scharm at Sheik, devoted to the struggle against the Islamic terrorism. Iran is the first accused, while Riyadh requires from Israel to evacuate people from the occupied Palestinian territories.

CLEVELAND - Faced with a series of problems at the interna tional stage, Clinton's administration now wants to hush up its Balkan problems, but the world media note that Sarajevo, in stead of becoming a symbol of multiethnicity, it rather becomes a symbol of Islam. "The multiethnic Bosnia is in flames. Not only the abandoned Serb Sarajevo municipalities are burning, but the developing tensions in the CroatMuslim Federation threaten to grow into serious clashes", warn NATO officers and western diplo mats.

HAMBURG - The German media reports about exodus of tens of thousands Ilidza Serbs which leave their centuriesold homes. Frankfurter Rundschau says that the IFOR spokesman, the British colonel Pable, at a press conference in Sarajevo, warned some noisy representatives of the international media that "the deci sion to leave Ilidza the Serb population decided on their own, and not under pressure of their leaders" as some journalists try to present.

LJUBLJANA - The Slovenian Parliament demand that all of 19.000 Moslem refugees leave Slovenia until July of this year, not excluding a possibility of a collective deportation.

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