SERB AUTHORITIES BREACH THEIR OWN COURT'S RULING ON RETURN OF CROATS AND MOSLEMS

CROATS AND MOSLEMS SARAJEVO, June 24 (Hina) - The office of the international High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Tuesday sent a warning to Bosnian Serb authorities who do not let 38 Croat and Moslem families to return to their homes in Banja Luka. A spokesman for the office said in Sarajevo that Bosnian Serb authorities refused to implement rulings of Banja Luka court under which Moslems and Croats, illegally evicted from their homes from 1993 to 1995, could come back. Serbs mostly from other parts of Bosnia have moved into those houses and flats. The spokesman, Michael McLay, added that in April the Bosnian ombudsman's office had warned Banja Luka authorities that they must begin carrying out rulings of the court on June 7. Despite a pledge they have given, Banja Luka authorities have done nothing until now, and local police have not enable the legal owners to return to their houses and flats. A deputy to the international High Representative, Michael Steiner, conveyed a request for implementation of court rulings to the president of the Bosnian Serb entity, Biljana Plavsic, during their meeting in Banja Luka on Tuesday. (hina) jn mš 241546 MET jun 97