PRESS: PRIME SUSPECT IN SERBIAN PM'S SLAYING HOLDS BOSNIAN PASSPORT

SARAJEVO, April 10 (Hina) - The prime suspect in organising the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, Milorad Lukovic Legija, has a Bosnian passport which was issued to him by authorities of Republika Srpska under a false name, Bosnian press reported Thursday. #L# Citing an unnamed source from the Serbian government, the "Oslobodjenje", "Dnevni Avaz" and "Nezavisne novine" dailies wrote that the High Representative to Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, and Bosnian Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic, had been informed of this fact during their stay in Belgrade where they took part in a summit of Southeast European countries. Ashdown's spokesman, Julian Braithwaite, declined to comment on allegations about Legija's Bosnian travel papers, but did tell Oslobodjenje that Serbian officials had informed the High Representative that some criminals from the Serbian underground were staying in the Bosnian Serb entity. The entity's police, however, is doing nothing to bring them to justice. Ashdown was shocked when he heard that Serbian police were cooperating better with their Hungarian colleagues than those from Sarajevo or Banja Luka, Braithwaite said. A spokesman for the Republika Srpska interior ministry, Zoran Glusac, said a passport issued under Lukovic's name did not exist and that it was impossible to establish whether he owned a forged passport, since it was not know which alias he was using. (hina) lml