MURPHY URGES PARTIES TO FULFIL OBLIGATIONS UNDER DAYTON ACCORD

SARAJEVO, June 2 (Hina) - The office of the international high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday urged signatories to the Dayton peace agreement to fulfil their obligations after the international community took significant steps last week to encourage full implementation of the peace accord. Spokesman Colum Murphy said in Sarajevo that the attitude of the international community was clear after resolute statements by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and decisions made at a ministerial meeting in Sintra, Portugal. It was evident after the latest diplomatic efforts that there was a strong determination on both sides of the Atlantic to continue their involvement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he said. Murphy said that the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina had changed significantly after last week's diplomatic efforts. Most of the job on establishing joint government institutions had been finished, laws crucial for the functioning of the state had been adopted and the date of a donors' conference had been set. Murphy said that now it was necessary to remove from office those saying one thing and doing another. Describing them as secessionists and destroyers loathed by the international community, he said that those people had no other choice but to step down. (hina) vm jn 021557 MET jun 97