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From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org

APRIL 29 1997 EVENING

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

VIENNA - Just now RS is ready for the process of restitution and the finalising of the Constitution, but in doing this it is necessary to, as in all of the European national states, complete the process of the national consolidation, stated in Vienna the president of the RS Parliament, Dragan Kalinic. He warned the participants at the seminar called 'The Building of a Civil Society in RS and the Federation of B&H' that 'the former Yugoslavia fell apart just because of the national consolidation uncompleted', saying 'that it is very difficult to develop a civil society consisted of the same peoples'.

BANJALUKA - The IPTF spokesman, Alun Roberts, confirmed in Banjaluka that the two persons suspected of killing of a 68 year old Serb Petar Milanovic in the village of Kantari, near Sanski Most, are in the pretrial confinement in Bihac. Roberts explained at a press conference that after the murder Muslim police in Sanski Most arrested four suspects, two of which were released after the interrogation.

VIENNA - About 2,300 foreign observers are going to supervise the local elections in RS and the Federation of B&H, which are to take place on September 13 and 14, which compared to last year's municipal elections is twice more, reports the OSCE. In addition, some 480 foreign overseers will monitor the voter registration, 420 of which will be in RS and the FB&H and 60 in Yugoslavia and Croatia. The electoral rules are strictly agreed to so that the last year's electoral machinations would be avoided, says the announcement issued by OSCE which is, according to the provisions of the Dayton agreement, in charge of supervising the elections in RS and the FB&H.

BELGRADE - The president of the Federal Commission on help to the refugees in realising their rights at the elections in RS and the FB&H, Bratislava Morina assesses that the OSCE electoral rules are bringing the Serbian people into an absolutely unequal position in regard to the Muslims and Croats. She stressed at the press conference in Belgrade - where she together with the representative of the Belgrade OSCE Office, Zivota de Luka, presented the rules for the voter registration for the upcoming local elections - that the Federal Commission 'will put in the additional efforts in order to remove all the irregularities'.

SARAJEVO - The employment will not be increased without a general economic development, assessed the members of the Permanent Committee on Economic Development, who talked in Banjaluka about the problems of employment in RS and the FB&H. While speaking about unemployment, a member of the Committee from RS, Mladen Ivanic, stressed that 'about 159,871 persons are employed presently in RS, 61,000 or 31% of which work in industry, 19,000 in trade, 14,000 in education and culture, 12,000 in the health and social care, while the others are employed in the state enterprises and bodies'.

SARAJEVO - The representatives of the House of Peoples of the Parliament of the FB&H, failed to reach an agreement on adopting the Law on forming of a new municipalities, although this was suggested by the Government. Although the representatives accepted that the considering of the Proposal of the Operating procedure on the work of the House of Peoples be included in the agenda, the chairman Mariofil Ljubic suggested the document not to be considered because 'there is not even a minimal degree of agreement between the Clubs of Representatives of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and Party of Democratic Action (SDA)'.

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