SILAJDZIC SAYS SERBIA SOON TO RECOGNIZE BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, May 22 (Hina) - Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said today he was confident that Serbia would soon recognize Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent state. "(Serbian President) Milosevic will certainly recognize Bosnia-Herzegovina soon because it's the only way to achieve peace," Silajdzic said in a statement carried by Sarajevo television. He said that an announcement of the unification of Bosnian Serbs and their ethnic kin in the occupied areas of Croatia had no practical significance and was yet another attempt to manipulate with the Serb people in Bosnia. Silajdzic went on to say that two illegal entities such as the self-styled Serb states in Bosnia and Croatia were now trying to "patch up the holes" in the project aimed at creating a greater Serbia. He said that these attempts were futile. He called on the Bosnian Serbs to give up such attempts and join the project of creating a joint state of Bosnia-Herzegovina. (hina) vm 222055 MET may 95