CHARGE AGAINST FORMER REPUBLIKA SRPSKA PREMIER

( Editorial: --> 3658 ) SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, May 13 (Hina) - The Republika Srpska's Interior Ministry on Wednesday confirmed that Gojko Klickovic, former Premier of the Bosnian Serb Government, has been charged for misappropriation of an official post and embezzlement of 41 million Yugoslav dinars (just under DM7 million). As broadcasted by the Bosnian Serb Radio-Television, an Interior Ministry statement signed by Minister Milovan Stankovic, said that Klickovic without authorisation signed documents on the writing off of debts of the tobacco factory in Banja Luka as well for the opening of a duty free shop by a certain company in Zvornik, which directly cut into the Republika Srpska budget. Gojko Klickovic is inaccessible to the Republika Srpska police and it is assumed that he is in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and that is why the search for him has been abandoned, said the statement. Klickovic and his government, exclusively staffed by those close to the hard-line leadership of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) in Pale, were replaced following extraordinary parliamentary elections last year when SDS lost majority and Milorad Dodik was appointed as Premier. (hina) mrb/lm 131857 MET may 98