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VIENNA, Feb 11 (Hina) - The premier of the Bosnian Serb entity,
Milorad Dodik, Tuesday told a Vienna-based international
arbitration commission for Brcko that the fate of the Bosnian Serb
Government depended on the fact whether, under a commission's
decision, Brcko will become part of the Bosnian Serb entity or the
Croat-Muslim Bosnian Federation.
Dodik told the commission that Brcko, a town in north-eastern
Bosnia, should both formally and legally belong to the Bosnian Serb
entity.
The premier dismissed any other solution as untenable and fatal for
his pro-Dayton government.
If the arbitration commission gives Brcko to Bosnian Serbs, Dodik
promised 70,000 refugees would return to the Bosnian Serb entity
within one year.
"Give me Brcko, you will get the democratisation of Republika
Srpska and Bosnia-Herzegovina", the Bosnian Serb premier said.
The town of Brcko was occupied by the former Yugoslav People's Army
and Bosnian Serbs in 1992, as the key section of a corridor
connecting Serb-controlled territory in western Bosnia and Serbia.
Before the conflict, Serbs accounted for 20 per cent of the
population of Brcko and the Bosanska Posavina area in the north
through which the corridor cuts.
Brcko has strategic importance for Tuzla, a town on the territory of
the Croat-Muslim federation, as well, because of a railroad
connecting the town with central Europe. As the railroad passes
through Brcko, Tuzla is in isolation.
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