SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, March 26, 1996 (fwd)

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

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

SARAJEVO - The RS National Assembly president, Momcilo Krajisnik, reached an agreement with the president of the B-H federation, Kresimir Zubak, on the releasing of war prisoners between the Serbs and Croats. Krajisnik explained that this mean that all war prisoners who are being held in HercegBosnia, Croatia and Srpska will be released.

SARAJEVO - The RS premier, Rajko Kasagic, talked in Pale with the IFOR commander, admiral Leighton Smith, about the imple mentation of the Dayton agreement. "At today's meeting we dis cussed the functioning of the RS police", said Kasagic after the meeting and added that IFOR thinks that certain police check points should be removed.

SARAJEVO - The IFOR spokesman, captain Mark Van Dyke, stated that "the transfer of authority is not completed in Zvornik vil lages which are according to the Dayton agreement belong to the RS, because the Muslims neither want to leave the area nor they want the presence of the Serb police". Van Dyke pointed out that IFOR has finished its part of the work, but the Muslims are making problems.

PARIS - Le Figaro writes that Mostar is a European fiasco and that there will be no reconciliation between the Croats and Muslims. "Mostar is ethnically divided city which was the Croa tian intention. The Muslims claim that the Europe is the collabo rator of the Croatian fanatics, because it watched how the Croats sabotaged the reunification of the city", said the paper.

ZURICH - As long as the big powers are behind the Hague tribunal, the impartiality can not be expected in the work of the court, stated for Swiss paper Weltwoche, professor of history, Jorg Fisch. "During the war, the tribunal had preventive charac ter, because it had to discourage potential war crimes", said Fisch.

BERLIN - The Hague tribunal indicted three Muslims in order to hide the obvious onesidedness, writes the German press. Neues Deutchland stressed that "there is the difference when the tribu nal charged 45 Serbs, seven Croats and three Muslims".