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          REACTIONS ON STEINER�S INTERVIEW
Sarajevo, June 24, 1996 (Press TWRA) - After the last week  ardent
reactions   caused   by  Michael  Steiner  interview   (PIC   High
representative  deputy)  to  daily �Oslobodjenje�,  the  mentioned
newspaper  published also the reactions of several opposition  and
leading parties representatives:
      Mirsad  Ceman,  SDA  General Secretary, described  Steiner�s
interview  as  very  inobjective, adding  Steiner  was  mentioning
consequences and not causes. �Bildt and Steiner had had to do much
more  in  the  period when we were requesting  Serbs  to  stay  in
Sarajevo;  when  we  almost  implored international  community  to
prevent  taking  away of industrial systems  and  burning  of  the
houses of these same Serbs that are now claiming they have nowhere
to  return�,  Ceman said, suggesting Steiner to do  more  for  the
rights of Bosniaks and try to return them from where they had been
expelled  by  Karadzic and others. Ceman pointed out  he  was  not
familiar with the fact whether police could have done more as  far
as  civil  protections is concerned, but there is no doubt  police
should done everything possible in its domain. He also ignores the
number of isolated incidents, but considers as impossible to place
a  policeman  in  front of the each house. At the  same  time,  he
claims,  displaced refugees do not participate  in  incidents  and
they  have  not  been, in any way, displaced in order  to  provoke
them. �Naturally, SDA does not justify the attacks upon people and
their  property  and  will  renew  the  request  for  its  maximum
protection.  I  think  it is human to place people  in  the  empty
houses,   at  least  for  few  months.  SDA  has  never  supported
colonizing  in  order to ethnically homogenize  but  to  help  the
suffered civilians�, Ceman said.
      Zlatko  Maric,  SDP  BH  representative,  said:  �Our  party
welcomes   each  action  that  aims  to  prevent  the   incidents.
Maltreatment and provocation have been diminished, police activity
has  been  intensified  during  the last  period.  �Refugees  from
Srebrenica  and  Zepa  who  are  coming  here  are  inciting   the
conflicts. I consider this as more difficult accommodating to  the
rules of urban living and I believe this would be soon overcome.�
      Stjepan  Kljuic, member of Presidency and  President  of  BH
Republican  Party,  said: �Steiner�s interview  I  consider  as  a
gesture  of  an honest friend to BH and a man of law to  whom  one
should  believe. I think it is now clear to everyone that  certain
structures  of  the legal authority are consciously violating  the
Dayton accord.�
      Rajko Zivkovic, Serbian civic committee (SGV) Vice-President
said  that,  thanks  to  federal police, the  situation,after  the
transition  of administration,was very well but it was  afterwards
aggravated  due  to  which  his party  contacted  the  BH  leading
structures.  Responsibility for suffering of  Serbs  in  Sarajevo,
Zivkovic divides in �three degrees�:
1)  regime  in Pale - is the most responsible because they  forced
Serbs  to  leave  their  homes and to  set  on  fire  and  destroy
everything  they could, (2) Sarajevo authorities - they  have  not
made  a  decree  on amnesty on time and used each  opportunity  to
repeat that everyone, except members of Serb Army, can stay in the
town,  (3) international community - has not prevented burning  of
the   houses,  taking  away  of  industrial  systems  etc.  Actual
incidents  seem as natural because this area is now  colonized  by
refugees from the Serb entity�, Zivkovic said. (end) S.K.

          BOSNIAKS PREVENTED TO ENTER IN CAPLJINA
Sarajevo,  June  24,  1996  (Press  TWRA)  -  According   to   our
correspondent�s report, some 200 Bosniak refugees tried  to  reach
Capljina,  by  buses, in accordance with the previous negotiations
but the column was stopped in Bivilje Brdo with the explanation of
the  Croatian  local  police that �documents  are  not  completely
satisfying�.  Soon later, buses were encircled by  Croat  refugees
who  were threatening and offending Bosniaks, preventing  them  to
enter in Capljina. (end) S.K
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