COOPERATION BETWEEN SARAJEVO AND BANJA LUKA TV ESTABLISHED

( Editorial: --> 3222 ) SARAJEVO, Feb 19 (Hina) - Directors of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Radio and Television and the Independent Television of Banja Luka, Amil Omersoftic and Zoran Kalinic, respectively, signed a cooperation protocol between the two television companies in Sarajevo on Thursday. This is the first such cooperation between the Bosnian Federation and Republika Srpska since the signing of the Dayton Agreement. As the Bosnia-Herzegovina Radio announced Thursday, the signed protocol envisaged an exchange of economic and political information in the whole of the country, and the "broadcasting of news that promote peace, human rights and freedoms, as well as the economic stability of the country". Omersoftic and Kalinic said that the two television companies also had to be connected directly, by technical means, so that the exchange of information could improve. (hina) lm jn 191738 MET feb 98