INTERNATIONAL POLICEMEN TO CONTROL SITUATION IN BRCKO

SARAJEVO, March 24 (Hina) - International police force members will be deployed in all stations of local Serb police in Brcko, northeastern Bosnia, in order to control the work of Bosnian Serb policemen during next one-year period. A spokesman for the United Nations in Sarajevo, Alexander Ivanko, said the decision on deployment of international policemen was the result of five-hour talks which international police commissioner in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Manfred Seitner, had held yesterday with Bosnian Serb entity's interior minister Dragan Kijac. International policemen would participate in patrols of Serb police in a Brcko wide area, Ivanko said on Monday and added it was a necessary measure in such a hot spot. In line with a request of Carl Bildt, top international peace administrator in Bosnia, which he has sent to the UN after a decision of arbitration on the temporary status of the Bosnian port on the Sava river, more than 200 international policemen will be sent to Brcko to supervise whether law and order are respected and to facilitate the return of Moslem and Croat refugees to their hometown. (hina) jn mš 241714 MET mar 97