PRO-KARADZIC PARTY CALLS FOR MARCH ON BANJA LUKA

SARAJEVO/PALE, Sept 9 (Hina) - The Bosnian Serb hard-line leadership have reiterated their call to its supporters to march on Banja Luka, the seat of Biljana Plavsic who is the Bosnian Serb entity's president. The Pale radio has been broadcasting a proclamation of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) led by Karadzic supporters which calls on the Bosnian Serb entity's residents to march on Banja Luka and "liberate politicians blocked in the Bosna Hotel." The proclamation was signed by the SDS acting president, Aleksa Buha, who replaced Radovan Karadzic when he had to resign after the Hague Tribunal indicted him for war crimes. The SDS statement claims that the police force loyal to Plavsic who used to be Karadzic's close associate and recently turned his rival, virtually have been keeping Pale politicians, including Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb member of the Bosnian collective Presidency, in custody since Monday night. SDS leaders have called on everybody who travelled toward Banja Luka on Monday but were stopped by NATO-led SFOR, to try again on Tuesday to enter Banja Luka and "liberate legal and legitimate top authorities in the Republic of Srprska." The Pale radio on Tuesday evening said that Krajisnik and his entourage were offered to leave the Bosna Hotel in the northwestern Bosnian city but that they had refused until the Pale premier Klickovic was allowed to leave the hotel as well. (hina) jn mš 091659 MET sep 97