UN'S KLEIN CONFIRMS KOSTUNICA TO VISIT SARAJEVO SUNDAY

SARAJEVO, Oct 21 (Hina) - The head of the U.N. Mission to Bosnia told Hina on Saturday Yugoslavia's new president would visit Sarajevo on Sunday to meet the highest Bosnian officials. The man who deposed Slobodan Milosevic is coming to Sarajevo to encourage new Bosnia-Yugoslavia relations, said Ambassador Jacques Klein. He told reporters President Vojislav Kostunica would meet Bosnian Presidency chairman Zivko Radisic and member Halid Genjac, and Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic. Klein said the West saw this meeting at the Sarajevo airport as having outstanding importance. All, Washington included, believe good relations between Bosnia and Yugoslavia are crucial for the stability of this region, he stressed. The United Nations official said he would personally accompany Kostunica and his three associates to Sarajevo. He described the talks at the Sarajevo airport, expected to last 40 minutes, as informal bilateral talks. Kostunica will then board a U.N. plane to Podgorica, Montenegro. Klein said he would attend the Sarajevo talks, the only representative of the international community present. He explained the U.N. Mission had invested maximum effort to make the meeting a reality. On Friday, Kostunica was forwarded a letter warning him his first visit to Bosnia should not end only with a private trip to southern-most Bosnian Serb town of Trebinje, where is to attend the reburial of a Serb poet. Klein said Kostunica's attention was also drawn to the importance of improving Yugoslavia- Bosnia relations as soon as possible. (hina) ha