CROATS,MUSLIMS IN SERB ENTITY OFFERED ETHNIC MINORITY CIVIL RIGHTS

RIGHTS $ SARAJEVO, July 29 (Hina) - According to Monday media reports from the Bosnian Serbs in Pale and the Alternative Information Net (AIM), the new leader of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS), Aleksa Buha, at a Saturday meeting held in Banja Luka, Serb entity, made a proposal to the leaders of five opposition parties offering "joint premises" before the Bosnian September elections, which should support all political forces in the Serb entity. The "joint premises" proposed that Bosniacs-Muslims and Croats be offered ethnic minority civil rights in the Serb entity, on the condition that Serbs get the same rights in the Bosnian Federation; that all pressure put upon "republika srpska" by the international community be stopped; that Bosnian Federation parties registered for elections in the Serb entity be regarded as "alien bodies"; that elections in Brcko, on the Croatian-Bosnian border, be not delayed; that buildings of joint institutions of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina be situated on borderlines between the entities, and that media in "republika srpska" enable equality of representation to political parties in the time before the elections. According to AIM, the participants in the Banja Luka meeting agreed that "republika srpska", as a national interest, should not be put into question, and that elections in Brcko should not be delayed. The opposition also supported the stance that Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic should not be delivered to the International War Crimes Tribunal. Leader of the Banja Luka liberals, Miodrag Zivanovic, was the only one to warn that "republika srpska" was not a state, but an entity in Bosnia- Herzegovina, as was clearly stated in the Dayton agreement. No representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) attended the meeting, and their spokeswoman in Sarajevo Joanna Van Vliet said that media reports were not enough to ascertain what had been agreed on. However, Van Vliet confirmed that such definition of the Bosnian Serbs' aims was clearly against the Dayton agreement, adding that representatives of all parties and their candidates who wanted to take part in the forthcoming elections were supposed to sign a special statement saying that they would respect the agreement. The opposite would, according to the rules of the Temporary Electoral Commission, entail sanctions which could call for the removal of candidates from electoral lists. "We expect complete information from our regional office in Banja Luka and only then can we decide what to do", said Van Vliet, adding that OSCE would not accept any stance or attitude contrary to the Dayton Agreement. (hina) ha 291627 MET jul 96