GANIC CONFIDENT BRCKO WILL BE PART OF BOSNIAN FEDERATION

TUZLA, Feb 4 (Hina) - Bosnian Federation vice president Ejup Ganic said on Tuesday that the leading Bosnian Serb party would not succeed in its attempts to divide Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ganic made the statement in the northeastern town of Tuzla after a closed-door meeting of the Federation's arbitration commission of which he is the chairman. Commenting on a threat by the de facto Serb Democratic Party (SDS) leader Radovan Karadzic of a renewed war unless the northern Sava river town of Brcko was part of the Serb entity, Ganic said: "The SDS is pursuing the policy of complete separation. We will undermine that policy by securing the Federation's access to Europe through Brcko. The SDS is leading the policy of the defeated and will be defeated once again after February 15." February 15 is the deadline until which the international arbitration commission should decide whether the strategic town would be part of the Bosnian Serb Republic or of the Moslem-Croat Federation. Serbs accounted for 20 percent of Brcko's prewar population. (hina) vm jn 041913 MET feb 97