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Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 98-02-19
From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org
FEB. 19, 1998 EVENING
NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
SARAJEVO - The deputy B&H Foreign Affairs Minister Dragan Bozanic assessed
for SRNA that "foreign political platform of B&H is a cleaned out text in
which directions of foreign politics, as well instructions for work of the
Foreign Affairs Ministry, are very summarised". He reminded that the
Platform has been adopted by the B&H Presidency, which also determines
foreign policy, and the Foreign Affairs Ministry was executive organ. "It
is going to be the basic directive for the work of the new Ambassadors of
B&H in the world and that is one of prerequisites for them to take
on the duty" - Bozanic explained.
SREBRENICA - Not even at the forth inter-party agreement a solution for
division of key official seats between Serbian parties - Serbian Democratic
Party (SDS) and Serbian Radical Party (SRS) - and Coalition for Whole and
Democratic B&H have been found because of a demand of the Coalition to have
all key seats . In a statement for SRNA the deputy chief of OSCE
mission for B&H Richard Elerkman assessed today's agreement, which
he presided himself, as "more opened and concrete" that previous
ones, expressing conviction that "a solution is almost there".
VISEGRAD - The Minister for Refugees and Displaced Persons of Republika
Srpska (RS) Miladin Dragicevic stated during a visit to collective shelters
in Visegrad that the RS Government would improve conditions of living in
the first phase, and in the second phase work on the dismissal of the
shelters. According to him, the RS Government would ask for help from the
international organisations in order to complete this task. Dragicevic
emphasised that living conditions in these centres, as well as in the other
60 private centres in RS in which 6,939 persons live, are very difficult.
MOSTAR - In last ten days in the region of Drvar 12 burnings of houses and
economic buildings owned by Serbian refugees, and intimidation of two Serbs
during their visit to abandoned homes have been recorded - the IPTF
spokesman Alun Roberts stated at a press-conference in Vitez. According to
him, the members of Croatian Council of Defence (HVO) settled in houses of
exiled Serbs in this region, and not in barracks, are significantly
endangering security and along with that the possibility of return of the
Serbs.
BRUSSELS - NATO Council will have a meeting tomorrow in Brussels with
countries which participate in SFOR, but are not members of NATO, among
them Russia too. A decision on forming a new peace keeping troops in B&H,
which would replace previous forces after their mandate has expired in June,
should be made at the meeting. The new peace keeping troops will be the
same size as the previous ones until the general elections in September,
and after that, depending on the situation in the field, the number would
be reduced to 20,000 - 25,000.
MOSTAR - In SFOR base in Mostar a big military training, in which 1,000
soldiers and six national contingents of peace mission in B&H took part,
has been completed - Croatian radio Herzeg-Bosna reports. In the region of
Stolac, Mostar and Capljina French, Spanish, Italian, Moroccan, Norwegian
and American units, which have arrived from the North sector of B&H, have
participated in the exercise.
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