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From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org

AUG. 30 1997 EVENING

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALUKA - RS president Biljana Plavsic talked in Banjaluka with special US envoy for the Balkans, Robert Galbard on current political situation in the Republic. President Plavsic underlined that she received assurances from Mr Galbard that "in the democratic process of the overcoming of the crisis in RS she enjoys a full support from the USA and Contact Group countries". Expressing his concern over the latest developments in RS the US envoy stated that the global interest of the international community in the region is the implementation of the Dayton agreement, pluralistic democracy and compliance with the Law.

SARAJEVO - President in the B-H Presidency from RS Momcilo Krajisnik and deputy high representative Gerd Wagner, reached an agreement on the continuation of the work in joint B-H institutions. "I explained that we did not want to forgo our participation in the joint bodies, but to point out at the danger of our present position which many elements want to use to act beyond their mandate", Krajisnik stated after the meeting.

BANJALUKA - The vice-premier of the RS Government and first vice-president of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) for Serbian Lands, Aleksa Buha, assessed in Banjaluka that the democratic parliamentarian and presidential elections are the only way out from the current political crisis in RS. While taking part at the session of the SDS Board for Starcevica, Buha confirmed that "RS president Biljana Plavsic has refused any kind of response or any compromise with the rest of the state leadership".

SRBINJE - Only the Serbian people have the right to decide and rule in RS, state they created in an armed struggle on the Serb land, this is a message from the meeting of the residents of

Miljevina, near Srbinje. Srbinje authorities stated their support to residents of Brcko, Bijeljina, Zvornik and Serb Sarajevo, emphasising that their firm resistance to an armed force and illegal institutions were the best way to prove Serb people's resoluteness to defend their state.

SARAJEVO - At its session held in Pale, the SDS City Board for Serb Sarajevo supported the RS National Assembly and Government and assessed all- level elections would be the best solution to the present crisis. President in the B-H Presidency from RS, Momcilo Krajisnik, informed the members of the SDS Serb Sarajevo City Board of the current political situation in RS. While talking of the latest events in Brcko and Bijeljina, Krajisnik pointed out that they came as a result of defying the RS Constitution and Law and an attempt of RS dissolution, "but in no way there were a result of the personal rifts within the SDS, as some want to illustrate them. "

PRIJEDOR - The SDS for Prijedor remained in the line of the SDS Programme and would analyse, accept and implement every decision of the SDS leadership, this was concluded at the SDS Municipal Board in Prijedor. The Board president Dragan Savanovic referred to yesterday's talks between the Board delegation and the SDS vice-president Aleksa Buha and other members of the SDS Main Board on the current political situation in RS.

SARAJEVO - The RS Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) concluded the danger from renewal of the events seen in Brcko, Bijeljina and Janja has not been removed. The RS MUP announced that "those who advocate the divisions among the Serbian people and break-up of RS can provoke turbulence and various incidents and present them as inter-Serb clashes, which would serve as a motive for a scenario similar to that of Brcko and Bijeljina".

HAMBURG - A rain of stones threw at SFOR troops in Brcko showed very indicatively to which extent the West, primarily Washington, involved into the inter-Serb disputes, siding with Biljana Plavsic, concludes the liberal German paper "Neues Deutschland". "The near future is yet to prove how the present Western 'carrot and stick' methodology, in shape of credit arrangements for Biljana Plavsic and her followers on one, and club for her opponents, on the other side, can lead to a success", writes the German paper.

SREBRENICA - The first named on the list of candidates of the Democratic Party of Federalists in Srebrenica, Momir Milosevic, stated that the aim of this Party is perseverance of RS and its unification with Yugoslavia on a federal level. "Our aim at the municipal level is access the Assmelby and to include in decision-making process, so every vote in the future multi- party and multi-national Srebrenica Assmelby will have a grave importance", Milosevic stated.

BEOGRAD - The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) harshly criticised NATO behaviour in RS, assessing it as "very arrogant and impudent", and warned at statements by some US representatives about alleged Serb terror against SFOR members "as a foremost political and human hypocrisy".

VUKOVAR - The president of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), Vojislav Stanimirovic, assessed yesterday's talks with the Croat vice- premier Jura Radic as "positive and satisfactory", and pointed out that "there are no lists of war crimes suspects in Croatia anymore". He assessed that this fact would result in psychological relief of residents of Eastern Savonija, Baraja and Western Srem.

BEOGRAD - His Holiness, Patriarch of the Serbs, Pavle, arrived in St. Andrew in Hungary, for visit to the Buda Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Belgrade media report Patriarch Pavle was welcomed by His Eminence Bishop of Buda, Danilo, and Yugoslav ambassador to Hungary, Balsa Spadijer.

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