$ R 14 SARAJEVO, Aug 26 (Hina) - International Peace Coordinator Carl Bildt warned Biljana Plavsic, who had taken over the public duties of the Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic at the request of the international community,
that no limitations in the freedom of movement should be allowed on the day of elections on September 14. He had asked Plavsic to take measures which would ensure the implementation of this part of the Dayton Agreement, Bildt's spokesman in Sarajevo Michael McLay said on Monday.
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SARAJEVO, Aug 26 (Hina) - International Peace Coordinator Carl
Bildt warned Biljana Plavsic, who had taken over the public duties
of the Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic at the request of
the international community, that no limitations in the freedom of
movement should be allowed on the day of elections on September 14.
He had asked Plavsic to take measures which would ensure the
implementation of this part of the Dayton Agreement, Bildt's
spokesman in Sarajevo Michael McLay said on Monday. #L#
Bildt forwarded a letter to Plavsic which said that the
Republika Srpska Interior Ministry decision to allow only twenty
locations where the border between entities could be crossed and
only with busses was unacceptable.
Such measures would represent a draconian violation of the
peace agreement, the letter said.
Special representative of the UN High Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR) for the former Yugoslavia Soren Jessen-Petersen on Monday
said that nationalist political leaders in Bosnia were putting the
future of the country as a multi-ethnic community into question.
UNHCR was worried that such tactics could lead to the victory
of hard-liners and xenophobic nationalists at the upcoming
elections. If displaced persons and refugees were not ensured the
possibility to vote freely, those who were responsible for the war
would win again and those who had suffered the most in the war
would lose, Petersen said.
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