TERRORISM COMPLICATES SITUATION IN BOSNIAN FEDERATION

( Vidi vijest: 5004 ) SARAJEVO, Oct 22 (Hina) - A number of terrorist attacks have recently been carried out in the Bosnian Croat-Moslem Federation but the overall situation there is much better than in the Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Federation President Vladimir Soljic said in Sarajevo on Wednesday. Addressing the Federation Parliament's upper Chamber of Peoples, Soljic said that some issues were unnecessariliy politicised in discussions, such as the status of the Adriatic port of Ploce in Croatia. Federation Vice President Ejup Ganic warned of terrorist attacks, stressing that they should be unconditionally prevented and that international assistance should be sought in those efforts. Federation Interior Minister Mehmed Zilic said that 172 bombing attacks and 56 murders had been reported this year, adding that 15 murder cases remained unsolved. (hina) vm mm 221832 MET oct 97