A RADAR SYSTEM TAKEN AWAY FROM BOSNIAN SERBS

PALE, June 4 (Hina) - NATO-led Stabilisation Force troops on Tuesday took away a radar system from the Bosnian Serb army, activated previously without necessary permission. A spokesman for SFOR, Chris Riley, said on Wednesday that the not allowed activation of an anti-aircraft radar system located in a Serb military base near Sokolac on Mount Romania had been discovered on May 28. Riley added that the SFOR command had not been notified that the radar sets would be activated and nobody could supervise the procedure. The SFOR command portrayed the act as a direct violation of the peace agreement's military part, immediately banned all flights of Bosnian Serb military aircraft, and demanded the explanation of such conduct. We did not get a satisfactory excuse, and an operation of confiscating the whole system was carried out, the spokesman told a news conference held in Pale outside Sarajevo. He added that Bosnian Serb soldiers had not try to offer any resistance and the entire operation was completed in one hour. (hina) jn mš 041405 MET jun 97