SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, March 21, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

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

SARAJEVO - The president of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska (RS), Momcilo Krajisnik, received in Pale the high representative of the international community, Carl Bildt, for talks on further implementation of the Dayton agreement, especially concerning the Sarajevo area.

SARAJEVO - The RS minister of education, Nedeljko Rasula, talked with chief of UNECSO mission in Sarajevo, Colin Kaisser, on the upcoming Conference of Universities to be held in Barce- lona, and the start of work of the Commission for Protection of National Monuments.

BERLIN - The Berlin's "Junge Welt" transmits an article of the Muslim paper "Ljiljan", saying that "Sarajevo becomes not only the capital of the Bosnian Muslims, but capital of all European Muslims". Junge Welt issues a warning of the RS Parlia ment president, Momcilo Krajisnik, that "Sarajevo will become a new Teheran", assessing it as "not being a pure Serb propaganda but very certain reality".

CLEVELAND - The Bosnian peace is on a slippery ground, for the main objective of the war - ethnic division - has not changed after four years of warfare, concludes a British diplomat Jona than Clark for Washington Post. He warns that, accepting the ethnic cleansing, division of the Former B-H could be realised at the very beginning of the crisis by which the war would be avoid ed. "Lord Carington offered such a division 1992, and it had been offered also in through other peace plans".

PARIS - By departure of the Serbs from Sarajevo, the last phase in the ethnic cleansing was completed in the Former B-H, stated the French foreign minister, Herve de Sharette for "Vesti". "There is no reason to be happy, for the reality is not what it was assumed to be", explained the chief of French diplo macy.

LONDON - In stead of reminding the participants of the Geneva meeting of crimes committed against soldiers of the Yugo slav National Army (JNA) by members of Slovenian Territorial De fence, Croatian Army and the "Green Berets", at the beginning of war in the Former Yugoslavia, the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, was bargaining about Serbian heads at the Hague mar ket. He promised the U.S. secretary of state, Warren Christopher to deliver two RS citizens, Drazen Erdemovic and Radoslav Kreme novic to the Hague Tribunal.

STOCKHOLM - Due to extremely high expenses, the Nordic countries will significantly reduce the number of their soldiers in the peace mission in the Former B-H, reports Swede State Radio. The decision on reducing the military presence in the Former B-H, made yesterday by defence ministers of Nordic coun tries, was followed by a conclusion that the contribution to the peace process should be enhanced through the civilian sector.

SARAJEVO - Sarajevo, once the lighthouse of the Balkan multiculturalism, became, by leaving of the Serbs, a shameful curtain behind which the last ethnic cleansing in the Former B-H is occurring, writes Independent. "Sarajevo is united, B-H divid ed, while the ethnically mixed communities are the past, writes the paper, concluding that it is a pradoxical result of the Dayton agreement.

BEOGRAD - His Holiness, Patriarch of the Serbs, Pavle, will visit, Bulgaria upon the invitation of the head of the Bulgarian Church, Maksim. The visit will take place following Easter, by mid April.

BANJAUKA - The restarted proceeding against indicted Ivan Stjepanovic (26), member of the 106th HVO Brigade, from Bosanska Bijela, near Brcko, was delayed again. According to the indict ment, Stjepanovic is charged with an attack on the village of Srpska Bijela, on June 11 1992, when he killed Veselin (61) and Dusan Lukic (65), Jovan Micic (60), Milan Sekulic (34) and his mother Mara (63).

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