SARAJEVO, Feb 3 (Hina) - Senior officials of Bosnia-Herzegovina firmly refused any possibility for parts of the BH territory to be a subject of talks in upcoming negotiations on solving the Kosovo crisis. The London "Times" announced
that at the Rambouillet negotiations, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could propose a territorial division of Kosovo, according to which Serbia would get a part of the BH territory, inhabited by Bosnian Serbs, the Sarajevo Daily "Oslobodjenje" reported. The spokesman of the President of the BH Presidency, Igor Radojcic, said that the respect for the BH boundaries, established during World War II, was the principle which the international community honoured while solving the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. Revision of this principle, would open all hot spots on the Balkans, questioned new borders, and raise the question of ethnic groups' arrangement, Radojevic said and a
SARAJEVO, Feb 3 (Hina) - Senior officials of Bosnia-Herzegovina
firmly refused any possibility for parts of the BH territory to be a
subject of talks in upcoming negotiations on solving the Kosovo
crisis.
The London "Times" announced that at the Rambouillet negotiations,
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could propose a territorial
division of Kosovo, according to which Serbia would get a part of
the BH territory, inhabited by Bosnian Serbs, the Sarajevo Daily
"Oslobodjenje" reported.
The spokesman of the President of the BH Presidency, Igor Radojcic,
said that the respect for the BH boundaries, established during
World War II, was the principle which the international community
honoured while solving the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.
Revision of this principle, would open all hot spots on the Balkans,
questioned new borders, and raise the question of ethnic groups'
arrangement, Radojevic said and asserted that the future of the
area lay in the 'softening' of borders and comprehensive
cooperation..
Adamir Jerkovic, the media advisor of BH member of the Presidency
Alija Izetbegovic, described the "Times" comment as one of many
journalists' calculations and combinations. He said Bosniaks were
not afraid of such speculations, considering them as unbelievable
absurdity or a canard.
The President of the Croat-Muslim Federation, Ivo Andric Luzanski,
believed that Milosevic's proposal should not come as a surprise,
considering that the international community failed to properly
response to his actions so far.
I hope that the international community will finally realise what
kind of a person it is dealing with, and on time react and prevent
the idea itself of the Serb entity's succession from the BH,
Luzinski said.
The President of the Serbian Entity, Nikola Poplasen, was very
reserved when elaborating Milosevic's proposal. His office
reported that Poplasen did not want to comment on speculations of
the meeting which would be held behind closed doors.
According to an anonymous official of the Serbian Peoples Alliance,
the fact that Milosevic wanted to annex the Serbian entity to Serbia
was publicly known, and added that if Kosovo would be a part of it,
Milosevic's goal would be completed.
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