BOSNIAC SIDE DENIES HAVING AGREED TO KISELJAK POLICEMEN PATROLLING

PATROLLING $ ILIDZA SARAJEVO, March 15 (Hina) - The Bosnian Federation Government Friday decreed that members of the joint Federal police force were to wear grey uniforms. Accrding to Interior Minister Avdo Hebib, the new uniforms would not be ready by March 19, when Federal police forces are to enter the suburb of Grbavica, but this was "only a technicality." Speaking at a press conference in Sarajevo, Hebib denied that there had ever been an agreement on Bosnian Croat policemen from Kiseljak joining the Federal forces in Ilidza. He was seconded by Sarajevo police superintendent Enes Bezdrob, who said that Michael Steiner, Deputy High Representative for the implementation of the peace accord, had ordered International Police Chief Peter Fitzgerald to bring nine Kiseljak policemen to Ilidza without consulting the Moslem side. However, this does not tally with the fact that Deputy Interior Minister Jozo Leutar forwarded a list of nine Croat policemen to be dispatched to Ilidza on March 9, three days before the reintegration of that Sarajevo suburb. The same day, the nine policemen were contacted by the Sarajevo Police Department and told to come and pick up accreditations issued by the International Police. Both Hebid and Bezdrob also strongly denied UN and international police allegations about looting and intimidation of remaining Serbs in Ilidza. They interpreted such allegations as "political pressure on the Bosnian side" whereby the international community hoped to show that that "all sides were equally guilty" and thus eschew responsibility for what has been happening in Sarajevo in the past four years. (hina) as 152031 MET mar 96