BANJA LUKA, April 5 (Hina) - The international community's High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, is considering the replacement of senior officials of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) from party positions and
positions they hold in Bosnia's executive authorities, Banja Luka's Nezavisne Novine daily of Monday quoted a senior international official as saying.
BANJA LUKA, April 5 (Hina) - The international community's High
Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, is considering
the replacement of senior officials of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS)
from party positions and positions they hold in Bosnia's executive
authorities, Banja Luka's Nezavisne Novine daily of Monday quoted a
senior international official as saying.#L#
Ashdown holds the SDS responsible for avoiding to arrest war crimes
indictees, which is why the possibility of banning the party is not
excluded, the anonymous source said.
"Any political activity can be banned; in Republika Srpska everything
can be banned except for biological occurrences," the entity's
president Dragan Cavic said on Sunday evening in an interview with a
local TV station when asked to comment on the possibility of
replacement of SDS officials and a ban on the party.
The High Representative banned the financing of the SDS with public
funds and ordered party leader Dragan Kalinic to submit by April 19 a
full report on the operation of the party which is suspected of
financing the network helping war crimes indictee Radovan Karadzic to
hide.
Ashdown will meet the highest officials of the Bosnian Serb entity in
Banja Luka today. The meeting will also be attended by ambassadors
from European Union member-countries.
(Hina) rml