GELBARD HOLDS TALKS WITH BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY'S MEMBERS

SARAJEVO, June 10 (Hina) - The United States is satisfied with the achievement of a peace agreement on Kosovo, but it has a dose of caution and is waiting to see how it will be implemented, said Robert Gelbard, a special American envoy for the Balkans, in Sarajevo. After his talks with members of Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-man Presidency on Thursday, Gelbard told reporters that his country remained reserved about the Kosovo deal, as it would like to see how it would be carried out and verified. As we have already said the precondition for the stability in the region is the existence of a democratic and prosperous Yugoslavia," the US President Bill Clinton's special envoy added. The American diplomat said he had discussed with Bosnian Presidency's three members the contents of the Stability Pact in south-eastern Europe and a role which Bosnia should play in the conduct of the pact. He stressed that he had conveyed the disappointment of the American side with poor progress in the implementation of the Dayton Agreement in the last nine months adding that ordinary people in Bosnia have not deserved to be represented by incompetent politicians. Gelbard explicitly criticised local authorities in Sarajevo saying that they are responsible for enabling Croats and Serbs to return to the Bosnian capital. (hina) ms