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Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 97-08-09
From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org
AUG. 9 1997 EVENING
NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
SARAJEVO - No new agreement on Radovan Karadzic's retreat from the media
came out of the meeting with US diplomats Richard Holbrooke and Robert
Galbard, but I expressed my readiness for compliance with the agreement
reached on this issue on August 18, 1996, stated the president in the B-H
Presidency from Republika Srpska (RS) Momcilo Krajisnik. He said that
during his Belgrade talks, attended by Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic, he proposed reactivation of the agreement on Karadzic's retreat,
in order to calm down the tensions. "Holbrooke and Galbard considered this
agreement was violated, but I said that Karadzic reacted as soon as his
criminalisation started and when the international elements blamed him for
many things which did not take effect", Krajisnik explained.
BEOGRAD - The former US envoy for the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, stated
that the president in the B-H Presidency from RS, Momcilo Krajisnik,
personally pledged that Radovan Karadzic stay out from media. "We did not
accept Krajisnik's proposal on a new agreement, because one was already
signed on July 18 last year", Holbrooke reminded at a press conference in
Belgrade. The US diplomat added that Krajisnik explained that he cannot
assume the obligation of the implementation of the agreement because
he did not sign it in capacity of the Serb representative in the B-
H Presidency.
BANJALUKA - SFOR troops blocked the buildings of the RS Ministry of
Internal Affairs (MUP) special units, in Banjaluka at in the Rakovacka Bara
and the community of Obilicevo, near MUP school, at about 11:00hrs - this
was confirmed in the Public Security Centre in Banjaluka. According to the
same source, these actions by SFOR represetnatives were carried out in
other places in RS, while SFOR South-West Sector Command in Banjaluka did
not give any statement or announcement.
SARAJEVO - SFOR troops did not find undeclared arms during their regular
arms control carried out in the MUP Anti-Terrorist Brigade 6th Unit Base in
Rakovacke Bare, near Banjaluka, stated the special police brigade commander
Goran Saric. According to him, such controls are regular and in accordance
with the Dayton agreement. "The Anti-Terrorist Brigade fulfilled all
demands and instructions set by SOFR and IPTF, as was confirmed during
the control", Saric said.
CLEVELAND - An order to SFOR troops to treat special police forces in RS
and the Federation of B-H as military formations is a new change to their
mandate, writes the L.A. Times, specifying that this change is directed
first of all against Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic's guard. Making its
mandate in B-H tougher, NATO issued an order also to "paramilitary police
forces to place themselves under control of the international forces within
a week, otherwise they will be disarmed and arrested", writes the paper.
BIJELJINA - RS senator and member of the Serb Academy of Science and Art,
Veselin Djuretic, assessed, in his comment on the political stir in the RS,
that the most important thing at the moment is that RS become strong as a
state, and then "time for cleansing of the house would come." He warned
that the present constitutional crisis and the leader-style behaviour
by some individuals represent a gambling which may endanger RS
foundations, especially because of a large number of those who disfavour
this Serbian state.
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