KRAJISNIK CALLS TO PLAVSIC TO RESIGN

SARAJEVO, July 4 (Hina) - The Serb member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's collective presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik, said on Friday that the conflict between the Serb authorities in Pale and Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic caused "a grave political crisis" in the Serb entity. Speaking at a session of the Bosnian Serb parliament, which began in the afternoon on Mount Jahorina southeast of Sarajevo, Krajisnik said that the two sides had severed all cooperation after a conference in Sintra, Portugal. Krajisnik called on Plavsic to withdraw her decisions on replacing Interior Minister Dragan Kijac, establishing police in the Brcko area and dissolving the parliament. "We call on her to withdraw her unconstitutional decisions and respect the will of the majority, and if she doesn't want to, then she should submit her resignation," Krajisnik said. Krajisnik confirmed the existence of the company "Selekt-impeks", which Plavsic had described as the centre of criminal activities within the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry. The company was founded for the purpose of "trading with the (Croat-Moslem) Federation under irregular conditions," he said, stressing that its existence was regarded as a top secret. Krajisnik said that he and Plavsic had met several times recently with Serb war-time leader and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic at Pale in failed attempts to find a solution to the present conflict. "That was not a problem because he (Karadzic) lives only five kilometres from here," Krajisnik said. Addressing the session, Kijac rejected Plavsic's accusations that he was involved in criminal activities as "a form of special warfare waged by the international community against the Serb Republic." Deputies of the Serb Democratic Party and the Radical Party decided that the parliament would be in permanent session as of today, defying Plavsic's decision to dissolve it. The session was attended by 49 out of 83 deputies. Members of opposition parties based in the northwestern town of Banja Luka and of the Moslem-led Party of Democratic Action boycotted the session. Parliament speaker Dragan Kalinic said at the beginning of the session that it had been called "to discuss the constitutional crisis which Biljana Plavsic has caused by overstepping her powers." (hina) vm 042128 MET jul 97