SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, March 08, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

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

SARAJEVO - The president of the Republic of Srpska Radovan Karadzic, stated that those who had worked against the conclu sions of the 1992 Lisabon conference, when Bosnia was divided according to the ethnic principle, should be indicted for crimes against the peace. The president said that "after three and half years of the war, we reached the solution which is very similar to the Lisabon one", and that those who rejected the solution are responsible for the war. Karadzic warned that the final aim of the international community is the integration of the former B-H, but "it will not cry if this not happened". The president pointed out that the final aim of the Serbian people is an independent state or a federal unit within a common state with Serbia and Montenegro.

SARAJEVO - The RS assistant interior minister, Milenko Karisik, talked in Pale with the commissar of the international police forces (IPTF), Peter Fitzgerald about problems during the evacuation of the Sarajevo Serbs. "We talked about the current security situation", said Fitzgerald after the meeting, adding that "an agreement on the protection of the evacuation of the populace who remained in areas under Muslim control was reached". Karisik expressed the satisfaction with the cooperation with the IPTF.

SARAJEVO - At a conference dedicated to the implementation of the Dayton agreement, held in Vienna, the high representative, Carl Bildt, was appointed a coordinator of the work of organisa tions and institutions for the protection of human rights, told SRNA Dragan Bozanic, the member of a RS delegation which partici pated at the conference. According to him, the aim of all these institutions is to provide the return of refugees, the organisa tion of free and democratic elections and the creation of confi dence between peoples following the fouryear war.

SARAJEVO - The president of the Srpska Economic Council, Bozidar Antic, talked in Pale with the director of the Russia Economic Council branch for Yugoslavia, Jurij Frolov, about the economic cooperation between two countries. After the meeting, Antic said that despite its own problems, Russia is interested in taking part in the reconstruction of the RS economy.

TUZLA - The director of the CSCE regional centre in Tuzla, visited captured Serb journalist Ninko Djuric in Tuzla on March 5.

BANJALUKA - I am not surprised by the fact that the Hague tribunal brought criminal charges against me, it is the process against the Serbian people, stated for SRNA the president of the Republic of Srpksa Krajina, Milan Martic.

KISELJAK - More than 3,000 Croats of Kiseljak, together with refugees from Vares, Fojnica and Sarajevo, protested against the entrance of the Muslim police in the Sarajevo municipalities which were under Serb control.