KARADZIC AND MLADIC MUST BE ARRESTED - U.N. SPOKESMAN

SARAJEVO, May 24 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic must be arrested and handed over to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague as a precondition for the full implementation of the Dayton peace agreement and a lasting peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said in Sarajevo on Friday. Ivanko said that the greatest responsibility for their apprehesion lay with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic who had assumed this obligation by signing the peace agreement. The entire international community would continue to exert pressure on Milosevic, Ivanko said, adding that the Hague-based tribunal would soon hold a hearing of evidence against Karadzic and Mladic after which it could issue warrants for their arrest. The two had been indicted for war crimes, including genocide and organized terror against the civilian population in Bosnia- Herzegovina. Commenting on announcements that could be heard in the last few days, that Karadzic would be less seen and heard from, Ivanko said that it was absolutely not enough. (hina) vm jn 241647 MET may 96