HAGUE TRIBUNAL CHIEF PROSECUTOR TO VISIT SERB-HELD BOSNIA SOON

SARAJEVO, Dec 18 (Hina) - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia will soon visit the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which will be the first contact between the Bosnian Serbs and a high-level official of the Hague- based tribunal since its establishment in 1994. Chief prosecutor Louise Arbour has accepted an invitation by Bosnian Serb prime minister Gojko Klickovic and will most likely visit the region in January next year, UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said in Sarajevo on Wednesday. In the same letter Klickovic informed the UN mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina that the Bosnian Serb Republic would cooperate with the Hague tribunal. Bosnian Serbs have so far rejected any cooperation with the war crimes tribunal, emphasizing that they will never extradite the persons indicted by the tribunal. (hina) vm jn 181236 MET dec 96