SECURITY SITUATION IN JAJCE UNDER CONTROL - CENTRAL BOSNIAN CANTON PRE

BOSNIAN CANTON PRE $ FECT TRAVNIK, Aug 4 (Hina) - "The overall security situation in Jajce is under control", Central Bosnia Canton prefect Ivan Saric told reporters Monday morning. "Sufficient security forces are there, and I have been assured by their leaders that no dramatic turn could occur", he added, speaking in relation to incidents that took place in Bosniak (Muslim) villages around Jajce yesterday. The situation concerning the Bosniaks' non-agreed mass return to Jajce was "far from dramatic", Saric pointed out. There was no information about any killings mentioned in Bosniak media, the prefect said, adding this was one-sided information of the Federal Interior Ministry and the Federal Ministry for Refugees and Displaced Persons. Saric pointed out perpetrators of any criminal acts, if there had been any, would be legally prosecuted. The prefect of the Central Bosnia Canton said he would go to Sarajevo if invited by international high representative for BH Carlos Westendorp. "It will be an opportunity to outline arguments and seriously decide what is in the common interest of Croats and Bosniaks concerning the return of Bosniaks to Jajce, but also Croats to Travnik, Bugojno and other places in the canton", Saric said, pointing out the return would have to be arranged, mutually complied with and safeguarded. Prefect Saric also reported about incidents apparently "spontaneously" caused by an organized group of Bosniaks, which included persons wearing Mujahideen fighters uniforms and which yesterday prevented 150 displaced Croats from Guca Gora to take part in a mass held there. Guca Gora is a village in central BH with a well-known Franciscan sanctuary, where before the 1993 exodus about 2,500 Croats lived. No Croat lives there now. There existed reasons for an open, thorough and argumentative discussion, Saric stressed, adding the Croat side in the Central Bosnia Canton would soon make public a project called "open canton", which should, among else, initiate a phase-return of all of the canton's refugees. (hina) ha 041759 MET aug 97