BOSNIAN SERB MILITARY REPS BOYCOTT MEETING IN SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO, Sept 8 (Hina) - Representatives of armed forces of Republika Srpska boycotted a meeting of the Standing Committee for military issues of Bosnia-Herzegovina which was scheduled to take place in Sarajevo Wednesday. reporters were told that a member of the Presidency of Bosnia- Herzegvina, Zivko Radisic, had unofficially informed the other two Presidency members that military representatives of the Serb entity had been prevented from coming to the meeting. At the beginning of the week, Republika Srpska Defence Minister Manojlo Milovanovic announced all Bosnian Serb officers would be prevented from attending the meeting outside of their entity without written security guarantees by the Stabilisation Force or the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The decision was made after the Austrian police arrested the Republika Srpska staff commissioner Momir Talic in Vienna based on a silent indictment issued against him by the ICTY. SFOR command, the Office of the High Representative to Bosnia- Herzegovina (OHR) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission issued a joint statement expressing surprise and disappointment with the acts of the military officials. (hina) lml