NOBODY SATISFIED, MANY CONFUSED AFTER B-H PRESIDENCY 1ST SESSION

SARAJEVO, Oct 1 (Hina - by Ranko Mavrak) - The very first meeting of Bosnia-Herzegovina's newly-elected presidency members, according to initial responses that could be heard in Sarajevo after the meeting had taken place, has made no impression on anybody by its contents, but did impress by its secrecy and unprecedented security measures, which had not been undertaken in considerably worse times and when such public figures as Warren Christopher or Boutros Ghali had visited the Bosnian capital. IFOR tanks and armoured personnel carriers, heavily armed soldiers, a whole host of local policemen and bodyguards of the three Presidency members (Alija Izetbegovic, Kresimir Zubak and Momcilo Krajisnik) created an impenetrable wall that prevented curious people to come nearer than 700 meters to a building where the meeting was being held. The public in Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere was denied the chance of receiving authentic interpretation of the contents of the talks that took exactly three hours and forty-five minutes. Television cameras recorded without sound not much joyous Izetbegovic, Zubak and Krajisnik sitting at a low table in a rather shabby room of little-known restaurant "Saraj", which has become the "hotel Sarajevo" in foreign correspondents' reports. The meeting's participants got negative points from journalists at the very beginning. Izetbegovic's and Zubak's limousines swished as they passed journalists at the arrival at and the departure from the venue, while Krajisnik, as usual, moved in the opposite direction and therefore he could not be spotted by reporters. The journalists had no other choice but to intercept the car of the international peace mediator Carl Bildt. "It is important that they (the presidency members) have started," Bildt said but declined to answer the question whether he was optimistic. The High Representative voiced his view saying that he was afraid that the three presidency members were too much mired in history, what was of no help for solving numerous open questions. The relief of the Swedish diplomat that it "had started" was undermined only an hour and half after the end of the talks by Krajisnik's statement to the Serb-controlled Pale television, when he said that they had not agreed on the establishment of joint bodies of authority and that Serb deputies to Bosnia's state parliament would take no oath and that even the venue of the Parliament's session, due to be held on October 5, remained to be under question. "We demand security guarantees," the Serb member of the presidency told the television with a facial expression of an experienced blackmailer. While Carl Bildt said with some hope that telephone links would be established between the presidency members in a day or two, Krajisnik "explained" that those links would make possible that presidency's meetings may be held "very seldom". So, Krajisnik immediately began to test what he could obstruct and how far. For the time being the other two presidency members are silent. The public is confused by the meeting of the highest- ranking state officials in a restaurant, journalists are angry while Swedish diplomat Bildt remains cautious. (hina) jn ms 012155 MET oct 96