SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, July 12, 1996

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

SARAJEVO - The vicepresident of the Republika Srpska /RS/ Biljana Plavsic warned at Pale that the Serbian people became resistant on pressures, threats and blackmails of the interna tional community. While commenting more aggressive attempts for arresting of the president Radovan Karadzic and general Ratko Mladic and extraditing them to the Hague Tribunal, Plavsic as sessed that in question is "only another in the series of pres sures, at which the Serbian people became resistant".

PALE - At the city stadium at Pale was held the inspection of the Fourth Sarajevo's brigade of the SarajevoRomania's corpse of the Army of RS and awarded the medals to their members. After playing national anthem "Boze pravde" /God give us justice/ and giving honour to the fallen fighters, the commander of SRK gener almajor Dragomir Milosevic, while addressing to soldiers, fami- lies of fallen soldiers and guests, emphasised the great contri bution of the people from Pale in the war for fatherland. While reminding of the soldiers from this region who built their lives in the creation of the state, the vicepresident Biljana Plavsic stressed that "RS should be a national state".

SARAJEVO - The IFOR's spokesman lieutenant colonel Max Mariner stated at Sarajevo that the issuing the arrest warrants against the president of RS Radovan Karadzic and general Ratko Mladic doesn't oblige IFOR to undertake the military action against them. While commenting the yesterday's decision of the Hague Tribunal, Mariner said that IFOR will undertake such an action only in the case of the close meeting during the missions of patrolling or setting the obstacles on the roads where they are moving.

HAGUE - The president of the Hague Tribunal Antonio Cassese stated that the discussion about appropriateness of organising the process in absentia at this court is "still opened". "We have discussed about this issue since the establishing the Tribunal. There are different opinions and discussions are continued", stated Cassese at the press conference at Hague.

BANJALUKA - At Banjaluka started the two days conference of the ChristianDemocratic group of the European Parliament, dedi- cated to the providing the best conditions for peace at the region of the former Yugoslavia. "We wish to show our solidarity with the destiny of the people which are here endangered", said the president of the Group Wilfred Martens, who sent appeal to the former warring fractions to be included more actively in the creation of conditions for lasting peace.

MOSTAR - From the mass grave in the village Meljine near Travnik started the excavation of the 36 bodies of Croats, which were killed by Moslem soldiers on 1993, reports the Croatian radio HercegBosna. The president of the Office for exchange and searching for lost persons of Croatian Republic HercegBosna Borislav Kusic sharply objected to the foreign TV equips for not coming, while commenting this as the continuation of the tenden cious and lopsided reporting from the MoslemCroatian federation according to which, except Moslems, there are no other war vic tims.

SARAJEVO - OSCE accused the ruling Moslem SDA for attack against the opponent leader Haris Silajdzic at Cazin and because of that have forbidden the appearance of the seven of its candi dates from this city on the September's elections. The former Moslem prime minister Haris Silajdzic was attacked of June 15 in Cazin during the preelectoral meeting of his Party for B&H.

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