BOSNIAN SERBS DO NOT WISH REFUGEES TO RETURN

SARAJEVO, Sept 25 (Hina) - Representatives of the NATO-led Peace Implementation Force and the international police on Wednesday said in Sarajevo that the situation in the eastern Bosnian village of Jusici was peaceful and that negotiations continued so as to solve a crisis caused by the return of refugees. Last weekend about 100 displaced Bosniaks-Muslims returned to Jusici which is in the inter-entity separation zone, but in the area of the Serb entity. The international police received guarantees from local Serb authorities that no attempts would be made to enter the village in the following 48 hours. The Bosniak-Muslim returnees were mainly repairing their houses and bringing construction material, UN spokesman Aleksandar Ivanko said, adding that Russian parachutists were still observing all entrances to the village. UNHCR is registering all Jusici inhabitants who want to return to their village. Their return should be officially granted by Serb authorities on the basis of a special request in two weeks, while all other similar activities in the future should be performed on the basis of plans agreed on by the governments of the Bosnian Federation and Republika Srpska. Serb representative at the Presidency of BH Momcilo Krajisnik last evening told Pale TV that any return of refugees was unreal. He thinks that instead of organizing the return of refugees, the three sides in BH should organize the exchange of their property. (hina) ha jn 251453 MET sep 96