SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, July 30, 1996

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

LJUBIJA - Paying a visit to Prijedor, the acting president of Republika Srpska (RS), Biljana Plavsic visited a refugee centre in Ljubija and learned about the living conditions of the most vulnerable population. The local community president, Slobo dan Taranjac and the Centre's leadership acquainted Prof. Plavsic with the present figures of refugees in the refugee centre and the newlyarrived population in the villages of Gornja and Donja Ljubija. After visiting the refugee centre in Ljubinja, Plavsic left for Kozarac where the construction and reconstruction of buildings for the housing of refugees from the Republic of the Srpska Krajina is in progress.

SARAJEVO - The RS government decided that investigations of the alleged mass grave sites in RS will be allowed into the future but only with the reciprocal activities in the Croat Muslim Federation. "We were forced to take that decision because of growth pressure by the public not to go on with searching on the alleged Muslim mass graves around Srebrenica, and at the same time the works are stopped on exhumation of the bodies of Serb soldiers and civilians from the Federation mass graves", ex plained RS premier, Gojko Klickovic.

BELGRADE - The head of Belgrade's OSCE Office, Zivota De Luka stated that according to last night's data 38,000 refugees - who will vote at the September elections in RS - have been registered in Serbia thus far. De Luka explained that 15,000 registered persons expressed wish to vote in absentia and 23,000 to do it personally.

BANJALUKA - The Association of Serbs expelled from the former Yugoslav Republic of Croatia, based in Banjaluka sent a complaint to the OSCE Electoral Appeals Subcommission for the denial of the right to vote at the September elections in RS. The complaint says that about 90,000 Serb refugees from the seces sionist Republic of Croatia - presently living in Srpska - were denied the right to vote.

KOTOR - VAROS - The president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDS) to USA, Mustafa Ibrahimpasic assessed that the RS political top has during the war and in postwar period made a series of successful political moves, thus breaking the idea of intact B-H, while RS was recognised as separate state. "Although in almost hopeless situation, Karadzic and his assistants have, in spite of all pressures, succeeded in persisting on the way they have chosen", stated Ibrahimpasic for the latest edition of the Travnik paper, BosnaExpress.

BRUSSELS - The High Representative, Carl Bildt stated in Brussels that the international community should keep a military presence in the former B-H at least two years after the IFOR mandate expires on December 1996.

SARAJEVO - The International Police Task Force (IPTF) had asked separatist Croat authorities in the western part of Mostar to sack police chief Vjekoslav Cutura for kidnapping of Muslim police chief of Jablanica, Emin Zebic, who was jailed for several days on allegations of war crimes before being freed under in tense UN pressure, stated spokesman for IPTF Alex Ivanko.

SARAJEVO - Alex Ivanko, spokesman for IPTF in Sarajevo, assessed that an explosion which yesterday damaged the bridge near Velika Kladusa was aimed at preventing the return of Fikret Abdic's followers in exile from Croatia.

ZAGREB - President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia and vice president of the Croat/Muslim Federation, Ejup Ganic are expect ed to meet in Zagreb tomorrow to discuss the crisis emerged in organising the city authorities in Mostar.

SARAJEVO - Muslim premier, Hasan Muratovic, stated for Muslim TV that one of the international community's commitments in the implementation of the Dayton agreement is dismissal of the Croatian Republic of HercegBosnia, for "it is the main cause for all difficulties in the implementation of the peace treaty. Ac cording to Muratovic, the Muslim authorities are going tomorrow to ask the Islamic states to exert pressure upon Serbia and Croatia, in order they comply with the obligations stemming from the Dayton agreement.

MOSTAR - The Muslims in Mostar are living in fear of a new war with Croats in the case the European administration leaves this divided city, this assessment was reported by the AFP jour nalist, Alexandra Harmine. She relates a symptomatic belief of Emila, twentysix-years old Muslim woman, unemployed, who "hopes that the EU will not leave the city for, otherwise, a new war will break out".

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