Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 97-10-10

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OCT. 10 1997 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

NOVI SAD - We will maintain the single RS, despite wishes and intentions of Muslim politicians and their backers to establish unitary B-H, says the president from RS in the B-H Presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik, for the Novi Sad paper "Nedeljni Dnevnik". Muslim officials "behave as if someone has promised them Bosnia, but they will never get Bosnia as such, because the peace process has moved much forward", according to Krajisnik, who said that "the local elections were planned by Muslim officials and their backers to redraw the Dayton agreement and its results achieved through parliamentarian and presidential elections and elections for joint B-H bodies", said Krajisnik.

SARAJEVO - The Serbian Democratic Party for Serbian Lands (SDS SZ) won the local elections in majority of municipalities in RS, assessed the SDS SZ Main Board in Pale yesterday. "The SDS SZ Main Board believes that the results of the municipal elections in RS and the Federation of B-H represent one of the biggest Party's successes especially in Brcko and other municipalities in which Federal parties hoped for eventual victory, stated the director of the SDS Direction, Vlado Vrkes.

BRCKO - Supervisor in Brcko Robert Farrand, issued a rule concerning the multiethnic administration and judiciary in the city, and announced one more for police forces to be issued on Monday, in addition to amendments to the Statute of the Brcko municipality as verification of these rules. At a closed meeting with representatives of six political parties in Brcko who secured their share in local power, the supervisor announced the constitutive assembly session for 30 days at latest, even though the deadline for the formation of new administration is December 31.

BRCKO - Supervisor for Brcko Robert Farrand, assessed in his statement for SRNA that the results of the local elections indicated that "time has gone for nationalistic parties in RS and the Federation of B-H"."The hold of one- party authority and nationalistic forces in B-H policy started to alleviate. Your votes are a clear message to nationalistic politicians that their time is running out. Their false promises are obvious, and you want to see real employment programmes, programmes for communal services, school system and prosperous future", Farrand concluded.

SARAJEVO - While participating at the "Slobodno" tribune in Pale, RS minister of transport and communications Nedeljko Lajic and mayor of Serb Sarajevo Mirko Sarovic assessed SFOR's blockade of the Serb Radio-TV (SRT) as undemocratic act directed against the Serbian people. Minister Lajic said it was astonishing that the democratic world used force in an action carried out by SFOR, which, being received in the region as a guest, abused the hospitality of the Serbian people and seized SRT transmission towers. "SFOR action has nothing to do with democracy and it represents a classical censorship against SRT", Sarovic stated.

PODGORICA - The editor of the "Novine Srpske", Momir Vojvodic, assessed in Podgorica that "the latest developments in RS and takeover of SRT transmitters by SFOR was a part of a major plan to plunge RS into unitary B- H, in which the Serbian people would be 'beys' slaves' this time under the New World Order". "Seizure of police stations and SRT transmitters narrowed the circle around Pale", Vojvodic stated, and added that Pale "are thorn in the Western diplomacy's side, an that their wipe off the RS political map means wipe off the state itself."

PODGORICA - Acting editor-in-chief of the Monte Negro TV, Milorad Djukanovic, stated, in his reaction to SFOR takeover of SRT transmitters in RS that everyone should be enabled to air his personal view thorough media. Djukanovic stated that "as a professional and long-time journalist, I stick with journalists who should be offered a maximal protection and enabled conditions for professional work". "None should impede the work of media and journalists, and I have never regarded such moves as beneficial - either for those who made them - or for the people in media", Djukanovic concluded.

BEOGRAD - A blatant violation of the Dayton agreement, international law and civilised legacy in the sphere of information is at stake in RS as a wish to melt RS into Muslim B-H, this is concluded at a tribune of the Institute for Geo-Political Studies in Belgrade. Speaking about threatened rights of the Serbian people in RS, RS senator Kosta Cavroski said that SFOR's behaviour was a blow against freedom of opinion and freedom of expression and is carried out outside SFOR's mandate provided for in the Dayton agreement. Cavroski warned that "this situation counters principles of freedom of opinion and expression upon which the whole Western civilisation is based."

SARAJEVO - The Serbian Press Agency (SRN) sharply condemned the setting explosive under car the if editor-in-chief of "Glas Srpski" Gordan Matrak, as a terrorist act, and demanded that perpetrators be brought to justice. "SRNA is deeply embittered and hurt by the fact that there are people in Banjaluka who believe that setting fire and bombing actions can contribute to a democratic development of the over-all situation and RS international reputation, for which it is bitterly struggling", reads SRNA's telegram to "Glas Srpski".

BANJALUKA - The Democratic Party for Banjaluka and Krajina sharply condemned yesterday's terrorist act in which the "Glas Srpski" ' editor Gordan Matrak's car was mined. "We demand that investigating officers in Banjaluka proceed with a detailed investigation and bring culprits to justice, because Banjaluka must be a free city as all other RS territories", stated Party's president Nikola Spiric at a regular press conference.

BANJALUKA - The vice-president of the Serbian National Alliance (SNS) for RS, Ostoja Knezevic, said in Banjaluka that the SNS is in the process of organisation of its municipal boards which are expected to be established throughout RS within seven days. The SNS has established its municipal boards in the Western part of the country, while existing initial boards in Vlasenica, Sekovici, Gacko, Vesegrad, Nevesinje, Trebinje, Bileca, Bratunac and in the Posavina would grow into SNS municipal boards.

SARAJEVO - UNHCR spokesman Chris Janowski, stated at a press conference in Sarajevo that Croats were still preventing Serbs concentrated around bordering Drvar areas from returning to their homes. Being asked to explain recent clashes between legal RS police and para-police forces loyal to president Plavsic, UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said that he believed that "300 Banjaluka policemen went on to take over police stations in Doboj and Bijeljina", and added that this was "only presumption."

HAMBURG - What ever is in question - introduction of secret indictee lists, whether and when the elections in RS will take place and who is allowed to participate, and how RS police will be organised and who will manage the SRT - every Western interference in these things is justified by Dayton implementation, writes the liberal "Junge Welt". Paper's analysts reminded the readers of a fact that the "implementing forces got their tasks clear, concisely defined and strictly limited to military part of the implementation", so "every mandate expansion of NATO forces to arrests of war criminals and turning off TV transmitters as they regard them ineligible has absolutely no warrant in the Dayton agreement. "

BEOGRAD - At recently closed NATO ministerial meeting certain circles launched an motion that RS allegedly could ask for admission to "Partnership for Peace" as the independent entity; said "Vecernje Novosti"'s political-military commentator Miroslav Lazanski. He underlined that the initiative for admission of RS into the "Partnership for Peace" programme was made "with an aim at testing of reaction" of the RS leadership. "For return, RS leaders would be asked a more consistent implementation of the Dayton agreement", Lazanski claimed.

OSLO - This year's laureates of the Nobel prize for peace is "the International Campaign Against Mines" (ICBL) and its coordinator Judy Williams, a announced the Nobel Prize Committee in Oslo. The ICBL is an international organisation founded in 1992, which gathers over 1,000 human right societies, war veterans' organisations and other civil initiatives from 55 countries.

VISEGRAD - The fifth "Visegrdska Staza" cultural festival devoted to the remembrance of life and works of Serb writer Ivo

Andric, will start today in Visegrad.

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