PLAVSIC WARNED ABOUT KARADZIC-MLADIC COMMENTS

( Editorial: --> 6803 ) SARAJEVO, Mar 3 (Hina) - President of the Bosnian Serb entity, Biljana Plavsic, should abstain from commenting on suspected war criminals as she recently did on Kragujevac Television, said the High Representative's spokesman, Rida Attarashany, in Sarajevo on Tuesday. On that occasion Plavsic said that "Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic were symbols of a righteous and liberating battle of the Serb people". We sincerely wish that President Plavsic would not make such statements, said Attarashany. Our position in regards to war crimes suspects is clear and has not changed, which means that all such persons should go to the Hague and that is primarily the responsibility of the two entities' governments, he said. UN spokesman Aleksander Ivanko said that it would be best for Plavsic to correct those statements as soon as possible, and she would best do that by assuring that Bosnian Serb entity police capture "those two individuals" and send them to the Hague. (hina) mm mrb 031545 MET mar 98