BOSNIAN SERB HIGH MILITARY OFFICIALS MEET IN BIJELJINA

SARAJEVO, July 21 (Hina) - According to data available to the Stabilization Force, Bosnian Serb civil authorities continue to control the army and the police, SFOR spokesman Chris Riley said in Sarajevo on Monday. After a joint meeting in Bijeljina on Sunday evening, high officials of the Bosnian Serb ministries of defense and the interior, and the Bosnian Serb army headquarters, said they would not execute commands "which endanger the constitutional order of Republika Srpska". A Pale TV broadcast showed that yesterday's meeting was also attended by police and army officials loyal to the Serb Democratic Party, from whose membership Republika Srpska President Biljana Plavsic has been excluded. As the Serb entity's president, Plavsic is also the supreme commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, which includes the army and the police. For this reason it is not clear who really controls them. (hina) ha mm 211422 MET jul 97