FEDERAL DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER ON EVENTS IN SARAJEVO SUBURB

MOSTAR, March 6 (Hina) - Bosnian Federation Deputy Interior Minister Jozo Leutar said on Wednesday that the Bosnian Croat police in Kiseljak, west of Sarajevo, had dispatched a group of police officers, members of the federal police force, to Hadzici in order to take control of a section of this Sarajevo suburb. He said that instead of Croat police from Kiseljak, Sarajevo police officers had been deployed in Hadzici with the aid of the NATO-led Implementation Force. Leutar said that the Moslems, as a federal partner, broke the law because they had not informed him about the composition of the Hadzici police force. Leutar recalled that under the Internal Affairs Act that took effect on 1 February, the interior ministries of Bosnia- Herzegovina and Herzeg-Bosnia ceased to exist and were to be transformed into the federal and cantonal interior ministries. The Federation Interior Ministry was currently comprised only of minister and his deputy, he said. Leutar warned that Moslem authorities behaved as if only the Herzeg-Bosnian interior ministry had been dissolved and that only they had the exclusive right to represent the Bosnian Federation Interior Ministry. This showed the way in which civilian authority was being transferred in Sarajevo suburbs, he added. (hina) lm mm 062149 MET mar 96