ELECTORAL COMMITTEE REJECTS KARADZIC AS CANDIDATE

SARAJEVO, June 24 (Hina) - Every attempt of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) to enter Radovan Karadzic as a candidate in the upcoming elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be considered as provocation and foolish toying with the interests of common people among Bosnian Serbs," spokesman of the International Peace Coordinator, Carl Bildt's Office, Colum Murphy said in Sarajevo on Monday. #L# He warned that the political position of Pale was not clear and that international mediators were getting mixed signals from the local authority. Foreign Minister with the Pale government, Aleksa Buha, had on Monday refuted the possibility that he would take Karadzic's place as president of the Serb entity, Murphy said. There was still an atmosphere of chauvinism in Pale, as had been seen in Europe in the early 40's, Murphy said, recalling that a public hearing against Karadzic and Mladic was to take place before the International Tribunal in The Hague, in two days. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) spokeswoman in Sarajevo Joanna van Vliet categorically rejected any possibility that the name of any war crimes suspect appears on an electoral slate. According to adopted electoral rules, such slates would be rejected and the attempts of adding names during voting would make the slates invalid, van Vliet said. (hina) lm mm 241350 MET jun 96