Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 97-08-31

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

AUG. 31 1997 EVENING

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BRCKO - We would not go for the local elections unless the electoral rules and conditions are changed, warnes the acting president of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) for Serbian Lands, Aleksa Buha, while taking part at the SDS Brcko Board session. Accusing the international community of having double standards in voters registration, Buha said "supplementing and changing the electoral rules at the last moment is an unprecedented procedure." "In the last change, made on August 22, it stands that the people listed on sealed war crimes indictments should be arrested on polling at the polling stations. OSCE, without our consent, changes its mandate, and expand it to other fields", Buha reminded and added: "It was an agreement, as appropriate, that OSCE mandate lasts until the constitution of municipal assemblies, but the OSCE took on an additional mandate concerning the implementation of the electoral results. In fact, OSCE representatives would like to control the executive authority".

SAMAC - RS vice-premier Aleksa Buha assessed in Samac that "the serious situation in RS is a consequence of attempts by international elements to destabilise the RS, but also it came as a result of Biljana Plavsic's policy directed against the rest of the RS state leadership, coupled with her non-compliance with the Constitution". Buha criticised SFOR and other implementing partners in the Dayton agreement for the overstepping of their mandate, and explained the events in Brcko as "OSCE attempt to install the municipal administration in the city it treats as if nothing had happened in it between 1991 and 1997, all in order to push the city and the whole RS as well, into unitary B-H".

SARAJEVO - The RS Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) thanked to all citizens and organisations for the support they offered in the implementation of RS Constitution and Law, which are in function of RS preservation. "Having found it impossible to name all collectives, enterprises, associations, unions and war veterans organisations, municipal structures, patriotic forces and other organisations, especially to name all citizens, we thank them by this announcement for their support we have received to continue the way of the implementation of the RS Constitution and Law", reads an announcement signed by interior minister Slavko Paleksic.

DOBOJ - The Board for Defence of the RS Constitutional Order from Doboj, appealed on RS president Biljana Plavsic to establish "at least a basic cooperation in accordance with the Constitution and Law", unless she sought "split and destruction of RS." In its announcement, the Board called on all employed with the Serb Radio-TV to reestablish a single information system and to provide the people with the accurate reports, not taking any of the sides.

SENT ANDREW - His Holiness Patriarch of the Serbs, Pavle, who is in three- day visit to the Buda Eparchy, one of the oldest Serb Orthodox eparchies in Diaspora, held holy liturgy and dedicated the reconstructed Serb Orthodox Cathedral in Sent Andrew. The holy liturgy and dedication of the Church of Dormition was attended by a large number of Serbs who live in Hungary and church dignitaries.

MOSTAR - In Turbe, near Travnik, Croat returnees from abroad, Pero and Luka Jezeric were killed in their houses. Croat local authorities in Travnik, temporarily based in Nova Bila, announced that the victims were shot dead from a close range though window, while having dinner, at about 21:30hrs. The head of the Travnik municipality, Tosmilav Rajic stated that Luka and Pero Jerezic's murder undermined the establishment of the central Bosnian Parish and the B-H Federation, as well, and it would make difficult return of 18,000 Croats to the area.

MOSTAR - In spite Muslim resistance, the arbitration decision on the borders of the newly-established Croat municipality of Usora, after it separated from the Tesanj municipality, will be made by deputy high representative for B-H Gerd Wagner - this definite decision followed two years of futile Muslim and Croat attempts to come to terms o their own, although the head of the Tesanj municipality Fuad Sisic believes the "referendum on disputable territories should be the most acceptable solution which would eliminate further tensions."

BANJALUKA - In Stricici on Zmijanje, the birth place of the great Serb writer and people's tribune, Petar Kocic, the closing ceremony of the 32nd "Kocic's Festival", devoted to 120th anniversary of his birth, was held. As the Serbian national tradition and Orthodox customs imply, the Festival, attended by 10,000 people, started with the holy liturgy in the Klisina church in Stricici. In evoking memories on famous Serbian writer protector of people's interests Petar Kocic, the festival organisation committee president, Radoslav Grbic, presented this year's "Zmijanje" Association awards for literature to Sreten Vujkovic and Miodrag Misa Vulin and Dusko Radovic, who shared the second award. They said their newest poetry on Kocic's Zmijanje, after which poets from Sarajevo, Banjaluka, Serbia and Monte Negro presented their works.

BANJALUKA - The president of the RS Association of Writers, Vladimir Nastic, stated in Stricici on Zmijanje, that the writers would resist "all divisions among the Serbs, for they have always been their awaken part". "RS writers and all others have to do everything in order to make our state survive and grow into a power which cannot be wavered or destroyed", stated Nasic at the 32nd "Kocic's Festival".

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