INTERNATIONAL WORKERS RETURNING TO BOSNIAN SERB ENTITY

SARAJEVO, April 13 (Hina) - International organisations, active in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have begun returning gradually their workers into the Bosnian Serb entity after they have assessed that the situation in the Republic of Srpska is relatively stable and local police are professionally carrying out their duties. International workers and foreign diplomats left this Bosnian entity prior to the NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) fearing Bosnian Serbs could retaliate against the Western Alliance operation. A spokeswoman for the United Nations mission in Sarajevo, Kelly Moore, said on Tuesday that 100 UN workers, including International Police Task Force (IPTF) members, had returned to the Serb entity last week. There are currently 325 UN mission staffers in the Republic of Srpska supervising the work of local police and the general security situation. The mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has also resumed activities in Banja Luka. A spokeswoman for the OSCE, Tanya Domi, said not all workers who had previously been in Banja Luka returned to this northwestern city. (hina) jn ms