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BULLETIN

          REMOVAL OF KARADZIC DENIED AGAIN

Sarajevo, Pale, June 23, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Karadzic will not
stand the pressure of the international community and will resign
from the post of president of the Republic of Srpska in next few
days, but he will continue to lead SDS. His successor at the post
of president of the B-H Serb entity is Aleksa Buha, so-far foreign
minister of that para-state (Dayton agreement does not recognize
its statehood or diplomacy, i.e. foreign affairs except through
central authorities in Sarajevo, that should be established after
the elections late this year), who was appointed to the post by
the SDS executive board. Karadzic will not be the first candidate
on the election list at B-H elections in September this year.
     It was Reuter's news soon denied by Aleksa Buha who said:
"President Karadzic will not resign from the post. Those are the
media speculations. Everything will be more clear after the SDS
annual convention next weekend." (end) A.S.

          RAJIC, PRLIC AND SOLJIC ON "HERZEG BOSNIAN" GOVERNMENT

Mostar, June 23, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Bozo Rajic, Jadranko Prlic
and Vlado Soljic held a press conference in Mostar trying to
explain re-establishment of the government of the so-called Herzeg
Bosnia, severely criticized by B-H authorities but also by the
international community. Defence minister of the B-H Federation
(and Herzeg Bosnia) Soljic and the BH foreign minister Prlic told
that severe reaction was caused by inadequate statement issued
after the session of Herzeg Bosnian presidential council which did
not state that the council also decided to reduce the competence
of  "Herzeg Bosnian" government to the HVO controlled area, in
order to make the administrative bodies of the BH federation
function. Chairman of the B-H HDZ Rajic said that six ministries
in "Herzeg Bosnia" must function at the moment "otherwise, there
would be a vacuum in the authorities". HDZ explains that  by non-
existence of the agreement on functioning of some federal
institutions and Sarajevo claims that it is caused by Croat
obstructions of the Federation. (end) A.S.

          SLOVENIA INTRODUCED VISAS FOR BOSNIAN CITIZENS

Ljubljana, June 23, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Since July 1, Bosnian
citizens will need visas to enter Slovenia, released Slovenian
authorities, explaining it by Slovenia's nearing the European
Union and the wish of that state to join the Schengen agreement
(including Austria, Germany, Benelux and France, which tightened
control of external borders, weakening the internal ones). The B-H
citizens can have a  transit and a business visa for 3 months
issued in Slovenian Embassy to Sarajevo and Slovenian consulates
in other states. B-H Embassy to Ljubljana was surprised by this
news. (end) A.S.

          SERBIA: EXPLOSION AT THE EXPLOSION ANNIVERSARY

Belgrade, June 23, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Two workers in the military
factory "Prva iskra" in Barici near Belgrade were killed in an
explosion that occurred in the factory on Friday, released news
agency Tanjug a day after. The workers were killed while cleaning
container for producing explosives with 20kg of explosive which
exploded when they tried to move it. The accident occurred a day
before the anniversary in the factory Grmec near Belgrade where
explosive devices are also manufactured and where 11 persons were
killed. (end) A.S.

          COTTI CHECKS CONDITIONS FOR ELECTIONS IN B-H

Sarajevo, Bern, Stockholm, June 23, 1996 (Press TWRA) - "None of
the OSCE member states is not willing to support partial elections
to B-H", the Switzerland foreign minister and the OSCE president
Flavio Cotti said for today's "Sonntag Blink". Cotti arrived at
Sarajevo today and talked with the B-H prime minister Hasan
Muratovic. After two-day analysis of the situation on the ground,
F. Cotti will Tuesday disclose to what extent, and if democratic
conditions are met for free and fair elections in B-H.The Swiss
diplomat did not want to prejudice his judgment today, as it is
relevant for the international community.
     Last week, the OSCE official Robert Frowick recommended
holding the elections as scheduled. The same wish is expressed by
all western governments, particularly the US administration whose
official Frowich is. French president Chirac said the elections in
B-H should be held as planned by the peace agreement, i.e. by Sept
14, 1996, at latest. "Elections should be held, whatever occurs,
it would show the sides in B-H are aware that Europe demands
democracy. In that situation, any support is welcome and role of
OSCE particularly important. (...) Regarding Karadzic and Mladic,
I want the justice to be satisfied and verdict given, Yet, I
cannot see any link between their fate and elections in B-H in due
time," said Chirac. Due to democracy, political stability and
economic renewal, it is necessary to hold elections in B-H as
scheduled, and therefore the proper conditions must be met. It was
a conclusion of the delegation of  Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe, led by vice-president of the Parliamentary
Assembly Tadeusz Twinski (Poland) along with Josephine Verspaget
(Holland) and Pierre Lacour (France). They also stressed it was
necessary to provide urgent and substantial economic aid to
Bosnia, "so that citizens might enjoy the benefits of peace."
     Among those who are not for elections at all costs of the
ICTY main prosecutor R. Goldstone who said  too soon elections,
without proper conditions (including political isolation but also
arrest of the indicted war criminals), could lead to division of B-
H legalizing apartheid in that state. Goldstone was among the
whites in South Africa who in 80ies of this century conducted the
movement to ban racial segregation.
     Unlike that, the main international representative in B-H
Carl Bildt, whose views were spoken out  by his spokesman Collum
Murphy, holds that elections should be held as soon as possible,
to decrease the possibility of Bosnia's carve-up, since after
elections the state's institutions, being connective tissue of B-
H, should be established.
     International institute for peace research (SIPRI) financed
by Swedish parliament Riksdag, its founder 30 years ago, does not
regard the elections the most important element in B-H peace
process. SIPRI warns: "The Dayton accord followed great human
tragedies and mass displacement of population. None of the sides
in B-H has won, and none is satisfied with status quo. Such
conditions in history were always favourable for resuming the war.
Dayton has cleared more than settled the deep causes of the
conflict, specially territorial division. Among its negative
outcomes is the existence of two armies and at the same time two
states within one." SIPRI hopes "barriers of division could be
overcome with the time, and external help, trade development and
free flow of information and the key for lasting peace is in
effective acting of ICTY."
     Higher deputy head of the OSCE mission for preparation and
implementation of  elections in B-H Kenneth Scott expressed his
pleasure over accepted candidacy of all 33 independent candidates
and nearly all applied parties (of 51, only the "parallel" to HDZ
and SDS are rejected, whose heads Juric and Jagodic can complain
within 3 days and of 49 remaining parties, 48 have the right to
participate at the level of B-H. Serb democratic party of the
displaced persons led by Pantelija Lakic had not enough signatures
so it is accepted at the county level. That will enable a wide
choice for voters to elect the leaders for  future," said Scott.
(end) A.S.
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