IPTF HAD INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE ATTACK ON SUMMIT

MOSTAR, July 17 (Hina) - A spokesman for the International Police Task Force (IPTF) in Bosnia, Allain Roberts on Wednesday confirmed to the press in Banja Luka that the international police and the SFOR in the country had information that an attack was being prepared on the presidents of Yugoslavia and Croatia and members of the Bosnian Presidency who met in Sarajevo on July 15, the Federal News Agency (FENA) reports. #L# Two days prior to the Sarajevo summit the IPTF received information about a possible planned activity directed against the high officials participating in the summit in Sarajevo. In cooperation with the SFOR, necessary measures and activities were taken in the central Bosnian canton, Roberts said. In any case, in addition to Central Bosnia Canton, SFOR transporters and soldiers in full war equipment took position at all the entries into Sarajevo just prior to the summit. Controls were set up around all major buildings in Bosnia's capital. Police officials who wished to remain anonymous on Wednesday confirmed that several days before the summit a group of Muslims in Travnik (Central Bosnia) were found with five contemporary anti- aircraft projectiles. Suspicions exist, police officials explained, that the projectiles were prepared for an attack on the plane carrying Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica prior to his arrival in Sarajevo. Kostunica recently refused to apologise for the suffering of the people of BH particularly in Srebrenica, during Slobodan Milosevic's regime. The day before the Sarajevo summit, a Bosnian Islamic organisation, the "Muslim brothers" prepared an ironic welcome for Kostunica. The centre of Sarajevo was stuck with posters of war photographs of Kostunica holding a machine gun in his hands. The posters were labelled with Kostunica's statements made in 1995 when he praised the Chetnik movement led by Draza Mihajlovic in World War II. (hina) sp it