SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, March 18, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

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

SARAJEVO - The president of the Novo Sarajevo municipality, Milorad Katic, told SRNA that the organised evacuation of the Serbs from this municipality will be completed by 14:00 hrs. According to him, 200 Serbs will remain in Grbavica, Vraca and Kovacici, which are to be handed over to the Muslims tomorrow.

BRUSSELS - The NATO secretary general, Javier Solana, stated that "the anarchy in those parts of Sarajevo which came under the Muslim control is a serious blow to the vision of a multiethnic Bosnia". Solana demanded "the Muslim authority to cease the anarchy and intimidation of the Serbs who remained in Sarajevo after the transfer of authority".

GENEVA - The foreign minister of the B-H federation, Jadran ko Prlic, confirmed in Geneva that the Muslims are not ready to accept a multiethnic Sarajevo, reports the world agencies.

ZAGREB - The president of the Croat/Muslim federation, Kresimir Zubak, accused the Muslim authority in Sarajevo of "intending to create a unitary state in the former B-H". In an interview given Slobodna Dalmacija, Zubak said that "the Muslims are still leaving in an illusion that they can create the former B - H as a unitary state, which would not be a state of three equal nation".

TORINO - Following the exodus of the Sarajevo Serbs, the Croats of Sarajevo are worried that this city will become "a small Teheran", writes Stampa. The Croatian fear of the creation of a radical Islamic state, as Iran, is not limited to Sarajevo only, but it is also spread throughout the Croat/Muslim federa tion, writes the paper.

HAMBURG - The meeting in Geneva was convened in order to prevent the disintegration of the Croat/Muslim federation, as sessed the German media. Whether the Croat/Muslim federation, which stands on rot pillars, could has future?", writes Frank furter Allgemeine.

BRCKO - The RS State Demarcation Commission agreed with the Muslim side that Gornje Dubravice remain in Srpska, while Delina Ravan i Donje Dubravice will belong to the B-H federation.