DODIK: MILOSEVIC WILL TRY TO RETURN TO POLITICAL SCENE

DODIK: MILOSEVIC WILL TRY TO RETURN TO POLITICAL SCENE SARAJEVO, Oct 9 (Hina) - The inauguration of Vojislav Kostunica as the new Yugoslav president is a big step but it does not mark the end of the political engagement of Slobodan Milosevic, the Bosnian Serb premier Milorad Dodik said in an interview with the Sarajevo-based daily 'Dnevni avaz' on Monday. Dodik warned that Milosevic would definitely try to return to the political scene. "It is a fact that Milosevic still controls important mechanisms of state institutions. He and people loyal to him will use that to further destabilise Serbia and the region," Dodik said. The Bosnian Serb premier is confident that Kostunica will show with his deeds that he is committed to democracy. "He is a democrat who will work for the benefit of the Serb people and it is also important that he does not do it to the detriment of other peoples," Dodik said. He expressed hope that changes resulting from the Opposition's victory in Serbia would positively affect the situation in the Bosnian Serb entity. All recent crises in the Bosnian Serb entity were caused by Milosevic, Dodik says, recalling the recent vote of no confidence in his government in the Bosnian Serb parliament. "That was done at the request of Milosevic's regime, which was aimed at generating instability here so that the attention of the international community could shift from his activities in Yugoslavia," Dodik said. The main executors of Milosevic's policy in Bosnia-Herzegovina were, Dodik claims, the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and Zivko Radisic's Socialist Party (SPRS). (hina) rml