SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, July 1, 1996

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

SARAJEVO - The newlyelected Main Board of the Serbian Demo- cratic Party (SDS) unanimously requested president of Republika Srpska (RS) Radovan Karadzic to run for the upcoming elections. The demand was said to stipulate from the position of the SDS members, stated though the SDS Assembly and its community boards.

SARAJEVO - The RS president Radovan Karadzic opened the first session of the renewed SDS Main Board, at which the lists of the political parties for September elections are to be pro posed and possibly determined. President Karadzic warned that the fate of RS is to be decided at the upcoming elections, saying "This is more than elections, this is the matter of survival, with the RS statehood as the stake."

BEOGRAD - The Congregational National Party (SNS) pointed that "by accepting the act transferring authorisations for presi dential duties, Carl Bildt recognised the fact that Radovan KAradzic remains the legitimate president of RS". "Karadzic turned the support of the SDS and the RS people into a patriotic act of transferring authorisations, which does not mean acquiesce to the international community demands, but displays awareness that the maintenance and development of the state is a goal which must not be endangered", says the SNS.

SARAJEVO - The high representative of the international community for the form B-H Carl Bildt dismissed a possibility of reimposition of the sanctions against RS as an additional pres sure upon the RS president RAdovan KAradzic, not excluding some other mechanisms. Bildt, AFP reports, did not specify what mecha nisms he meant, but firmly refused a possibility of reimposition of ht sanctions for , as he said, "it is a complicated instru ment" which might completely close RS resulting in severe conse quences for the RS people.

THE HAGUE - The Hague Tribunal is not in possession of any evidence that the prisoners camps were set up in RS upon Radovan Karadzic's demands or that he tolerated their existence, claims Deutche Vele.

SARAJEVO - The River Neretva is multiethically insurmount able! A report by any international agency's correspondent might begin with this conclusion, following the preliminary announce ment of result of the Mostar elections. According to first com ings, published unofficially in Mostar, the Croatian Democratic Party (HDZ) and the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) got over 90 per cent votes. The SDA got 48 % and HDZ 45 % votes. So, even before the officially announcing of the results, on Wednesday

July 3, it comes clear that Mostar remains the divided city and that nothing will be changed in relations between the Muslims and Croats on the Federal level.

SARAJEVO - IFOR spokesman Marc Mariner confirmed at a press conference in Lukavica that two Serbs and Associated Press re porte were injured in an attack on the bus with voters from Serbia who arrived in Mostar. According to Mariner, this was "the only incident" at the elections in Mostar.

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