SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, July 8, 1996

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

SARAJEVO - The Supreme Command of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) concluded in Pale that the military part of the Dayton agreement has been successfully implemented thus far, and that its further effective implementation is a prerequisite for resolution of many issues in peace, concerning primarily the status of the entire VRS and each Serb soldier individually.

SARAJEVO - The RS prime minister Gojko Klickovic described the threats of the international community related to the par ticipation of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) at he upcoming elections as undemocratic. He rejected all speculations about possible disqualification of the SDS at September elections as unfounded, reminding that Dayton agreement clearly stated that party functions are separated form the state ones.

SARAJEVO - The Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) Club of Depu ties is in session this evening, dealing with items of the agenda proposed for tomorrow's 61th session of the RS National Assembly.

SARAJEVO - The Electoral Staff of the SDS for Serbian Lands stressed new serious problems arisen with the provisional voters lists made on the base of 1991 census. The minister without portfolio and a member of the SDS Main Board Miroslav Toholj confirmed in a statement for SRNA that during the registration of voters in RS, it appeared that in some cities, like Prijedor, Banjaluka and, recently in Mostar, voters' lists for the whole city quarts and blocks are missing.

SARAJEVO - If the socialists win September elections in RS and the CroatMuslim Federation, all burden would fall on Slobo- dan Milosevic, which possibility Milosevic wants to avoid no matter of cost, concludes Radio Deutche Vele.

SARAJEVO - Yugoslav and RS representatives in the ICRC Work ing Group for Missing persons, talked in Pale on the problems of imprisoned and missing persons and exhumations in the former B-H. The RS health minister Dr. Dragan Kalinic and deputy Yugoslav health minister Pavle Todorovic reviewed the most alarming issues before tomorrow's Working Group meeting in Sarajevo.

HAMBURG - The credibility of the Hague tribunal is seriously shaken by its transparent intentions to convince the internation al public in responsibility of Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, even though any proof on alleged mass executions of the Muslims have not been found yet, concludes the German paper Junge Welt. The Neues Deutchland writes the present western hysteric campaign against president Karadzic can only diminish chances of the opposition parties for success at September elec tions.

HAMBURG - In its writing about the Bosnian Muslims leader Alija Izetbegovic, the German monthly magazine "Frankfurter Hefte" ironically notes that "with his feature of traumatised and constant victim he secured his place in the archive of postmod ernist international militaristic pseudointelligentsia". The paper reminds its readers that "Izetbegovic, a few decades earlier, prior to taking over the role of Muslim head and teach er, won his name in the international Islamic circles as a rest less fighter of Islamic cause by his membership in the terrorist organisation "Young Muslims".

SARAJEVO - The USA are fearful that remaining Mujaheddin in the former B-H are a constant threat to its troops stationed in the MuslimCroat Federation, stated an unnamed western diplomat. The CIA director John Deutch arrived last week in Sarajevo to inform Muslim authorities of Washington's fears that the remain ing Islamic warriors are the main danger for the American troops in the former B-H.

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