SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, April 1, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

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

SARAJEVO - The Main Board of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) concluded that the main tasks of the party in the future are the accommodation of refugees and the continuation of the implementation of the Dayton agreement. The president of Srpska and the SDS, Radovan Karadzic, stated after a meeting of the main board that according to the information which the main board has, the party still rates well with the people, this being, as he put it, the guarantee of the survival of state and party.

SARAJEVO - The 58th session of the RS National Assembly started today in Pale. The president of the Republic of Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, will hand out the Nemanjic and Njegos medals - first, second and third class - to all those who contributed to the creation of Srpska.

SARAJEVO - The signature of the Muslim prime minister, Hasan Muratovic, on three World Bank loans for the MuslimCroatian Federation does not oblige Republika Srpska at all, stated the RS Minister of Finance, Novak Kondic. In a statement given SRNA, Kondic said that talks with the IMF and the World Bank started in January this year and are in the phase of collecting data about the financial capacities and needs of Srpska.

BELGRADE - The spokesman of the Democratic Party of Serbia, Milorad Jovanovic, assessed the announcement of "concrete ac tions" aimed at "the neutralisation" of Srpska leaders as another American propaganda move.

BELGRADE - The president of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj, stated that the Serbian people will not allow its leaders to be arrested. "The Serbs should not exist at all, if they allow the illegal arrest of president Radovan Karadzic, general Ratko Mladic, and the president of the Republic of Srpska Krajina, Milan Martic", said Seselj.

BERLIN - The exhumation of the massive grave and the identi fication of the more than 200 Serbs massacred in Mrkonjic Grad, proves that the Croats and Muslims committed war crimes in the former B-H, reports the German media.

CLEVELAND - American troops which will for the first time guard the mass grave sites being exhumed in the former B-H, will find themselves on a slippery path, assess western agencies.

ATHENS - The Society of Greek/Serbian friendship answered the appeal of Srpska president, Radovan Karadzic, to help the refugees from Serb Sarajevo, and in a very short time the Society collected 50 tonnes of shoes, clothing, medicines and medical supplies.