SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, June 25, 1996

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

SARAJEVO - The president of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska /RS/ Momcilo Krajisnik talked at Pale with the High Representative of the international community Carl Bildt about the actual problems related to the implementation of the Dayton Agreement. After the meeting, president Krajisnik stated that the talks with Mr. Bildt were very useful, and that they tried to solve the current problems related to the elections and other problems referred to the implementation of the Dayton Agreement. Bildt assessed that the progress in efforts of the international community was made, and expressed the hope that the RS leadership will work in accordance with the given promises.

BELGRADE - The minister of the foreign affairs of the RS Aleksa Buha stated that at the session of the National Assembly on Friday, the Serbian Democratic Party /SDS/ will not determine the candidates for the coming elections. In the last night's interview for the radio "BBC" he stated that on Friday will be chosen the new leadership of the SDS, and they will one week later determine its candidates for the elections at all levels.

SARAJEVO - The Association of the Lawyers of the RS gave to Mr. William Strewbury, the chief of the Hague's Tribunal Office, the criminal application against the leader of the Bosnian Mos lems Alija Izetbegovic and the vicepresident of the Croatian- Moslem federation Ejup Ganic for the war crimes committed against the Serbs. "Against these persons the criminal procedure already started in Banjaluka in accordance with the criminal application of the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the RS", is stated in the statement of the Association of the Lawyers.

LONDON - "BBC" warned that any attempt to arrest the presi dent of RS Radovan Karadzic could destroy peace which stayed somehow longer that anybody expected. The Italian soldiers on the NATO patrols at Pale are throwing a shy glances towards the building of the RS Presidency in hope that they will see its president - describes "BBC" the intensified patrolling of IFOR at the Pale region, with the aim to isolate the chief of the Serbian state.

HAMBURG - The RS president Radovan Karadzic is firmly deci sive to participate the first postwar parliamentary elections, and the reports from the place affirms that the vast majority of the population of the RS is supporting its hero - writes " Tages Zeitung".

SIDNEY - With the aim to support the RS state leadership, the Serbs in Australia plans to forward the protest letters to the international factors, and the representatives of the FRY authorities, which lead the antiSerb politics. The Serbs from Australia send a massage, that if necessary, they will hold a public demonstrations.

TREBINJE - At the area of the Trebinje community the four registration sites are opened where the citizens until Thursday could by their signatures give the support for the candidature of Radovan Karadzic for the RS president. All the citizens of the Trebinje which are enfranchised at the coming elections, could express their support to Karadzic by their own signature at the appropriate lists.

BELGRADE - The vicepresident of the Socialistic Party of Serbia Slavica Djukic Dejanovic stated that the pending elections in RS are the most legitimate way towards the stabilisation in establishment of the state of law.

AMSTERDAM - The Dutch daily "Hat parol" in the analysis of the situation in the former B&H before the September's elec tions, calls the talks in Dayton the fascinating international theatre show, in which all the negotiators tried as much as possible, to deceive each other with the promises. "The parties in the conflict at Dayton under the pressure had reached the various agreements, which they had never wanted to comply with, because everybody had prepared another moves. So the extorted promises in Dayton were only formal" - said "Hat parol".

HAMBURG - The withdrawal of the U.S. soldiers from the former B&H will surely start on December 20th, and will be sub stituted by the European contingent of 20.000 soldiers, strength ened by the rapid reaction units - asserts the well informed German news "Tages Zeitung". The news concludes that "neither Serbs nor Croats are not willing to accept the unitary state, and current 60.000 IFOR soldiers can't persuade them in that".

LONDON - The British observers are not getting into the prognoses whether the former B&H will again fall into the whirl pool of the war, at the moment when the NATO forces, leaded by Americans, withdraw itself, but the continuation of the war, they think, would seriously undermine the credibility of the NATO - as "selfstyled peace-maker at the Balkans".

PARIS - The Hague Tribunal will never be able to get rid of the initial handicap - that it was created on the cynicism of the big powers, to which they should use as the alibi" - writes the Parisian "Monde". The news reminds that the idea of the creating of the Hague Tribunal was borne in the head of that time French minister of the Foreign Affairs, the lawyer Roland Dimas, and his aim, in that time, was not to judge but only to prevent the conflict in the former B&H.

PARIS - "Figaro" brings the text about the suffering of the Serbian Orthodox priest Zoran Perkovic at Kupres and conveys the testimony of its reporter Renoir Girard about the Croatian crimes against Serbs in August 1990. Girard describes the enter

ing of the Tudjman's "ustashas" (insurgents) in Kupres and the ways they had tortured and killed Serbs.

BEIJING - The UN secretary Boutros Ghaly risks to be sacri ficed at the altar of the U.S. elections, and UN to loose the credibility, if they become the instrument in the hands of the Washington - warned the Chinese daily "People". According to these news of the Chinese Communist Party, Ghaly's political future could be sacrificed in the presidential battle between the Republicans and the Democrats which out of UN made "the terrain for conflicts".

MOSCOW - The Russian president Boris Jeltzin signed the Decree about the withdrawal of the Russian troops from the Chec nya, which should be finished until September 1 - reports Inter fax. As stated, the commander of the federal forces in Checnya general Vieceslav Tihomirov expected such a move and already announced that 245. armoured vehicles will start with prepara tions for withdrawal at Friday, July 28.

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