SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, JUNE 8, 1996

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

BEOGRAD - Twentyfour Serbian intellectuals adopted a Decla- ration today in Belgrade on termination the proceedings of the Hague Tribunal against the president of Republika Srpska (RS) Radovan Karadzic. SRNA issued the Declaration in a whole.

BANJALUKA - With the help of family and their fellow sol diers, the Banjaluka's pathologist Dr Zeljko Karan identified four additional bodies of Serb soldiers and civilians delivered by the Muslims in the last ten days in Koprivina. The identified were: Milivoj Pilipovic and Sladjan Alakovic, both soldiers, and Jovo Jelicic (1928) and Mile Dronjak (1936) civilians.

DOBOJ - The UNHCR cancelled the "planned" visit of the Muslims from Gracanica to the community of Graparska, assessing that the conditions for the successful implementation of the provisions concerning freedom of movement are not created yet. A group of the Muslims attempted to penetrate this Doboj community.

SARAJEVO - The organisation of the first elections in the former B-H will not be perfect, but they are necessary, stated a member of Bildt's team, Colom Marphy. He stated that seven con sultations vital for the peace process and the establishment of the national institutions of the Serbs, Croats and Muslims from the former B-H are to be organised.

BEOGRAD - While commenting the agreement on armament control in the Balkans, the "Politika"' commentator Miroslav Laznski said it pertains only to the quantity of the arms, but it is more important who possess the modern armament. "If the Croats have the newest German tanks, and Americans, as they are announcing, arm the CroatMuslim Federation, they will have more powerful and modern armament than the Yugoslav Army and RS Army possess", assessed Lazanski.

BEOGRAD - the president of the Supreme Military Court Milos Gojkovic announced that the military court in charge has not started preliminary investigation regarding indictments that the Hague Tribunal brought against the Yugoslav Army officers Mile Mrksic, Veselin Sljivarcanin and Miroslav Radic. In an interview for "Dnevni Telegraf", Gojkovic said that "on the base of indict ments by the Hague Tribunal, no court in the world could not bring a decision on the proceeding with the investigation".

BEOGRAD - The Serb academician Nikola Cobljevic stated for "Dnevni Telegraf" that that the situation in the Kossovo is alarming "because of the Albanian population explosion". The problem of the Kossovo and Metohija was dealt with at the Assem bly of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts which warned at "expansionistic demographic Albanian policy and the simultaneous decrease in the birth rate with the Serbs".

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