U.N. IN SARAJEVO RESERVED ABOUT APPOINTMENT OF NEW SERB PREMIER

SARAJEVO, May 18 (Hina) - UN officials in Sarajevo on Saturday received with reserve reports that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had appointed Gojko Klickovic a new prime minister. Under the Constitution of the Serb Republic in Bosnia- Herzegovina, the final decision on the issue rested with the Serb parliament, UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko told a press conference in Sarajevo. Klickovic had been accused by UN officials of being directly responsible for an organized mass-scale exodus of the Serb population from Sarajevo suburbs before they reverted to Moslem- Croat Federation control. We will comment on his appointment only if he is confirmed by the Bosnian Serb parliament, Ivanko said. International police reported that seven Moslem men, who had surrendered to IFOR US troops near the northeastern town of Zvornik, had been maltreated by Serb police and forced to confess to crimes they had not committed. Ivanko said that the seven Moslems, currently in prison in Bijeljina, had told international police that they had been beaten up in a police station in Zvornik and that Serb police had harassed them for days. Confessions obtained in that way are not legally valid, Ivanko said. The seven men were on a Bosnian government list of missing persons from Srebrenica which had been overrun by Serb forces in the summer of 1995. (hina) vm 181446 MET may 96