BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS SARAJEVO-BELGRADE BUS SERVICE

SARAJEVO, Oct 29 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Communications on Tuesday suspended a bus service between Sarajevo and Belgrade because of Yugoslavia's violation of an agreement on the restoration of traffic. The bus line was established about ten days ago by the Sarajevo bus company "Centrotrans" and the Belgrade company "Lasta" under an agreement signed in July by Foreign Ministers Jadranko Prlic of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Milan Milutinovic of Yugoslavia. The agreement was confirmed in Paris earlier this month by Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Yugoslavia banned all military-age men from the Moslem-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina from entering its territory and charged 50 German marks per person as a tourist visa. Each Centrotrans bus crossing into Yugoslavia had to pay a fee of 450 German marks to Yugoslav border police. In order to protect at least partially the price of tickets, the Sarajevo and Belgrade bus companies had agreed that passengers travelling to Yugoslavia change buses on Mount Majevica upon entry into the Serb half of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Foreign Trade and Communications Ministry said that such a procedure was aimed at turning the inter-entity boundary into a border between two states. The decision on suspending the Sarajevo-Belgrade bus service would take effect on Wednesday, October 30. (hina) vm jn 291811 MET oct 96