SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, Aug. 7, 1996

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

SARAJEVO - A session of the Republika Srpska (RS) Govern ment, presided over by RS prime minister Gojko Klickovic, began at 12:30 by reviewing reports concerning the situation and prob lems arising during the preparation for the defence of RS. This item will be discussed in camera by the VRS chiefof-staff gener- al Manojlo Milovanovic and his closest assistants. Other than this, the agenda includes another 30 items.

BANJALUKA - The Serbian Peasant Party (SSS) candidate for the RS National Assembly, Nemanja Ristic, stated that Party members are committed to returning land forcibly confiscated in 1945. Member of the SSS Main Board Pero Sofrenovic, presented the national programme, stressing that "RS must be a state of Serbian people and citizens of other ationalities, as stands in the RS Constitution".

BANJALUKA - The position of the RS National Party is that the drafting of civic legislation should be worked on at once, the Party confirmed at a press conference in Banjaluka. "The legislation should regulate areas such as property, economic relations, inheritance and family relations", stated the presi dent of the Regulation Board Milorad Zivanovic.

BEOGRAD - We are striving for a strong, stable and democrat ic RS and its opening towards the rest of the world, by way of the creation of special links with FR Yugoslavia, stated the leader of the Alliance for Progress and Peace, Zivko Radisic. He expressed his belief that "linking with the world will bring the Serbs back into Yugoslavia which they had left, mostly not of their own will, because the Serbian people must he allowed to live freely and implement their state interests".

BELI MANASTIR - Despite the Erdut and Dayton agreements, the Croatian authorities are not letting up in their intention of making the return of expelled Serbs impossible, says a protest by the newlyformed Helsinki Board for Human Rights in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem. "The pilot project serves Croatia for resettling more than 1,000 Catholics from Janjevo in the Kossovo into 165 Serb houses in Kistanje, thus continuing the rough policy of swiftly changing the demographic picture of the midDalmatian Serbian areas, says the protest of the Board.

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