SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, Aug. 9, 1996

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

SARAJEVO - Republika Srpska (RS) minister of health Dragan Kalinic, and the president of the RS Red Cross, Dr. Ljiljana Zelen Karadzic, received in Pale Mr. Augustin Gaschignard, the chief of the mission of the French Humanitarian Organisation "Action Against Hunger". RS representatives suggested that the Organisation cooperates with the hospitals and clinics in RS in an effort to better supply them with food, hygienic supplies and packages for infants.

PRIJEDOR - Voting for the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) I vote for myself, is the basic massage from a public seminar held in the village of Racavci and organised by the Prijedor branch of the SDS.

BANJALUKA - At a news conference in Banjaluka, the RS Asso ciation of Veterans sent a word that soldiers have created the RS and because of that they are asking for an adequate place and role with it. "RS is our sacredness, what we have also proved in the war", stressed Ranko Bojic, the Association's president, adding that a special interest should be given to the organisa tion of Veterans.

BANJALUKA - UN special rapporteour for human rights, Eliza beth Rehn, is to held a press conference tomorrow in Banjaluka, where she is expected to exchange views with journalists about the role of media at the upcoming elections in RS and the Croat Muslim Federation.

LONDON - The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reported that the Contact Group for the former Yugoslavia will held a meeting in Brussels on August 12, to discuss the preparations for the upcoming elections in RS and the Croat-Muslim Federation, reports BBC.

BELGRADE - President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia met in Belgrade with US mediator for the former Yugoslavia, John Kornb lum. Belgrade's media report that they talked about the current problems in the relations between FR Yugoslavia and the USA, while Kornbulm's visit was said to be aimed at preparing the ground for the Geneva summit of the three presidents from the former Yugoslav republics of Serbia, Croatia and B-H.

SARAJEVO - The former Muslim premier, Haris Silajdzic, threatened that his "Party for B-H" will probably boycott the September elections, for he believes that the elections will legalise the division of the former B-H. Silajdzic stated this after revealing data from the voter lists, which, as he says, "show that refugees and displaced persons, especially the Serbs, want to vote in their present place of living, and not in places where they lived before the war, and this will certainly lead to a division of Bosnia".

VARES - Representatives of the Croatian residents in the Municipality of Vares sent a letter to Kresimir Zubak president of the CroatMuslim Federation and to all relevant international organisations in Sarajevo, asking for the protection of fundamen tal human freedoms and the right of the Croatian citizens to live in the Municipality. Freedom of movement is drastically restrict ed for the Croatian residents in the villages of Tisovac, Brezik and Gojicevac, and they are forbidden to use some roads, with explanation that the Muslim army allegedly possesses strategic buildings in the close vicinity of the road.

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