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APRIL 7 1997 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALAUKA - With the pen and the cross of Orthodoxy, journalists of the Serbian Press Agency have been a real defenders of truth while writing pages and pages of history together with Serbian people in a whole, say congratulations from the president of Republika Srpska (RS) Biljana Plavsic, regarding the Annunciation, the Day of the Serbian Press Agency. The RS foreign minister, Aleksa Buha, the head of the RS Army General Staff, general Pero Colic and others congratulated SRNA's fifth anniversary and its Patron Saint.

BANJALUKA - The president of the Executive Board of the Social Liberal Party (SLS) and deputy of the RS National Assembly, Djordje Latonovic, assessed at a press conference that Robert Frowick's decision to postpone the local elections in Brcko and create a balance with Mostar, is an ultimate hypocrisy. Latinovic assessed that Frowick is responsible for the organisation of local elections in B-H, as he is also for Brcko during the supervision period, but he can in no way, bring, according to Latinovic, such catastrophic decisions.

BANJALUKA - The IPTF spokesman, Alun Roberts, confirmed in Banjaluka that Croat authorities in Drvar last week released a Serb, Slavko Kurdzic, who was arrested under suspicion of committing war crimes. At an extraordinary press conference, Roberts said that during a visit by a group of seven refugees from Drvar to the local graveyard, Kurdzic was arrested and taken to a police station, after a civilian allegedly identified him as a war criminal.

KOTOR VAROS - Life of about 400 Zenica Serbs is growing more and more unbearable, and a pressure from local Muslim authorities becomes all the more vigorous every day, stated Dragan Bojanovic who left Zenica three days ago. According to him, the Serbs in Zenica are the second-class citizens and are subjected to harassment by Muslim foundamentalits.

AMSTERDAM - A four-week process to three Muslim and a Croat, charged with torture of Serb inmates in the Celebici prisoner camp, showed that the defendants are well-known offenders whom Muslim authorities in Sarajevo wanted to get rid of, reports the Hague tribunal correspondent, Hela Rotenberg. While clearing out the motive for their easy delivery to the Hague, she reminded that the hearing revealed that the three Muslims were tried in 1994 because of murder of a Muslim, Esad Bubalo.

SARAJEVO - The German foreign minister Valker Reuhe is to arrive to Sarajevo, reports Muslim Radio-Sarajevo. He will visit the German SFOR troops stationed in Trnovo, and will meet the commander of the French- German SFOR troops in Rajlovac, general Charles Odobuod.

SARAJEVO - The commander of the joint Muslim-Croat Army of the B-H Federation, accused the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) of conducting a silent obstruction of the Federal army, in which the USA invested $ 500,000, 000 as a part of the "Equip and Train Programme".

NOVI SAD - The international community should allow the democratic disintegration of B-H, in a way that all three peoples would decide through a referendum in what kind of state they would like to live, the Novi Sad daily "Dnevnik" quotes the Washington Post. The paper reminds that the only result of the Dayton agreement is the end of war, and adds that the Muslims are carrying out serious preparations for a new armed conflict to make up for the "lost of the unitary B-H in which they were dominant ethnic group".

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