MLADIC MUST ANSWER FOR WAR CRIMES - U.N. SPOKESMAN

SARAJEVO, Nov 9 (Hina) - International organizations in Bosnia- Herzegovina still have not been officially informed about the removal of Ratko Mladic as commander of the Bosnian Serb forces, spokesman for the NATO-led peace Implementation Force (IFOR) Simon Haselock said in Sarajevo on Saturday. UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko warned that Mladic's dismissal was not enough. That man has been indicted for the most serious war crimes and what Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic should do is dispatch him to The Hague, he added. Colum Murphy, spokesman for the office of the international community's high representative for the implementation of the peace agreement, advised caution, recalling that former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic had attempted but failed to remove 14 generals during the war. Therefore we will wait and see the outcome of this attempt, he said. However, the office of high representative Carl Bildt had registered certain changes in political views among Bosnian Serb leaders. As an example Murphy cited that Plavsic no longer spoke of the Serb Republic as a completely sovereign state. The Bildt office evaluated that the Bosnian Serb entity was in such a state that it was completely dependent on Western financial aid, which was a reason enough for cooperation. Plavsic said in a statement that she had to dismiss Mladic because of "well-known circumstances imposed by the international community." Mladic was replaced by little known General Pero Colic who had spent the war at lower command posts. His relative anonymity was most likely his main asset for appointment. (hina) vm jn 091423 MET nov 96