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SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, April 30, 1996Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) DirectoryFrom: Mirjana Petrovic <almirja@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu>SARAJEVO - Representatives of the international community had been warned that mass and forcible Muslim visits to Republika Srpska can not be treated as the freedom of movement, because they represent the violation of the Peace agreement, stated the RS Internal Minister Dragan Kijac. He said that the RS police has information that among the people who are trying to cross RS border there are a great number of those who want to provoke incidents for which the Serbs would be accused of.ZVORNIK - Around 200 armed Muslims attempted in the last seven days to violate border and the territorial integrity of Republika Srpska in the Zvornik municipality, but local residents prevented this. The Muslims attempted to enter Dugi Do, Pecinu and Boskovice, but there were some clashes with local Serb resi dents and they were forced to return to thier vilages of Nezuk, Zaseok, Vitinicu and Kovacevici. DOBOJ - The Swedish battalion spokesman lieutenant colonel Joran Westman confirmed that his unit yesterday prevented the Muslims of Gracanica from forcibly entering Srpska. BIJELJINA - The president of the Bijeljina municipality Dragomir Ljubojevic talked with the high representative Carl Bildt about the implementation of the Dayton agreement anf about the upcoming elections. TUZLA - The vicepresident of the Muslim-Croat Federation Ejup Ganic is the leading initiator and agitator of uncotrolled Muslim crossing to the territory of Republica Srpska (RS), stated today the Tuzla mayor, Selim Beslagic. In statement for RadioTuzla, Beslagic, who is leader of Independent Socialdemo- cratic Party, accused the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) of opting for war in order to create its objectives promoting extremism, while not consulting with other political parties in the Federal Parliament. SARAJEVO, April 30, 1996 /SRNA/ - The Serbian Intellectual Forum from Banjaluka, demanded the Republika Srpska (RS) state bodies more involvement in the arbitrage over Brcko. "If the international community wants the Dayton agreement implemented successfully, the Brcko area has to be widened, and the RS has to become a partner in negotiations equal to the CroatMuslim Feder- ation. Every other solution will provoke conflicts and the return of those opted for war. In that case, the international community would become an executor of only one ethnic group's interests", says the communique. ZVORNIK - Out of 9,000 Serb Sarajevans in Zvornik, there are 320 in the Petkovici refugee camp, and 40 in Kiseljak, who have been waiting for adequate accommodation for three months. In both centres refugees are supplied with water from cisterns, are short of food for babies and exhausted persons. |