BRCKO'S INTERNATIONAL SUPERVISOR WELCOMES DODIK-GANIC TALKS

( Editorial: --> 8415 ) BRCKO, July 18 (Hina) - The international supervisor for Brcko, Robert William Farrand, has welcomed arbitration talks recently held by the commission representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina's two entities, the Serb republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation, judging them as "very meaningful". Farrand told reporters that Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and Bosnian Federation President Ejup Ganic had explicitly expressed the desire for a more efficient activity in the area of health care, restoration of houses, stimulating the economy and the return of the refugees. The Brcko supervisor emphasised that his office would continue an active involvement in organising such meetings. Among other things, Farrand told journalists about the latest Order for the Brcko area by which he had forbidden the dismissing of the political officials who leave their current political parties or join another party. (Hina) is /mbr 181458 MET jul 98