BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HR-SHIPWRECK-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3868HINA Zagreb, January 9, 2000EX BOSNIAN SERB LEADER PLAVSIC FLIES TO THE HAGUESARAJEVO, Jan 9 (Hina) - Biljana Plavsic, a former president of the Bosnian Serb entity, on Tuesday morning flew to The Hague to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Plavsic's close aide was quoted by BH-press agency as saying today. Her aide, Svetozar Mihajlovic, who is the vice-president of the Serb People's Alliance (SNS), at whose helm Plavsic used to be until recently, said she had flown to the Netherlands aboard a plane ensured by the government of the Republic of Srpska. He added that Plavsic had travelled to The Hague as a war crimes suspect. Another SNS leader Branislav Lolic also confirmed Plavsic's departure for the Netherlands, but he added that no official statement on this matter could be expected from this party until Wednesday. SENSE agency on Tuesday quoted