ARREST OF GENERAL KRSTIC COULD JEOPARDISE PEACE PROCESS - RADISIC

SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, Dec 2 (Hina) - The chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zivko Radisic, said that the apprehension of Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes, could jeopardise the peace process in the country. Radisic said in Banja Luka on Thursday that the arrest by Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops "could jeopardise the results of the overall process of democratisation, reinstatement of confidence and tolerance," the Bosnian Serb news agency ONASA reported. He said it was about time for SFOR to return within the framework of its mandate as set by the Dayton Agreement, Radisic said and expressed expectations that the international community would not undertake such actions in the future. Republika Srpska army general Radislav Krstic, apprehended near Bijeljina on Wednesday, was transported by helicopter from a SFOR base in Tuzla to The Netherlands and is on his way to the ICTY detention unit in The Hague, ICTY said. Krstic is the highest ranking Bosnian Serb official to find himself under the jurisdiction of the Tribunal under a war crimes indictment. In the indictment confirmed on Wednesday and which was sealed until the moment of his arrest, Krstic is charged with genocide against Bosniaks (Moslems) in the Srebrenica enclave. Alongside Ratko Mladic, Krstic was one of the commanders of Serb troops who killed and exiled thousands of Bosniaks from the area in June 1995, the indictment states. (hina) lml mm