HAND GRENADE THROWN AT U.N. CAR IN BOSNIAN SERB-HELD TOWN

SARAJEVO, July 16 (Hina) - A hand grenade was thrown at a UN car in the Serb-held north-western Bosnian town of Prijedor early on Wednesday, the third bombing incident after NATO troops had arrested a war crimes suspect and shot dead another in Serb territory a week ago. UN spokesman Liam McDowall told a news conference in the Serb stronghold of Pale, south-east of Sarajevo, that no one had been injured in the blast. We are continuing our normal activities and we have not been put on heightened alert, he noted. John Blakely, a spokesman for the NATO-led peace Stabilisation Force (SFOR), said that SFOR troops continued performing their regular tasks but that they took seriously all threats directed against them. Meanwhile, the Venice Commission, a European Union working body charged with supporting democratic processes in Eastern Europe, assessed that the decision by Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic to dissolve the Bosnian Serb parliament was in line with the Constitution. Duncan Bullivant, a spokesman for the office of the international community's High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, said the decisions of the Venice Commission were no "legal bulldozer" in the hands of the international community, adding that the international community would wait for a decision of the Constitutional Court of the Bosnian Serb Republic. Bullivant warned that the Dayton peace agreement was a document which had a greater value than any law or even the Constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina, noting that the High Representative had the authority to interpret its civilian provisions. (hina) vm mm 161504 MET jul 97