U.N. CONFIRMS A RIFT AMONG BOSNIAN SERB POLICE

SARAJEVO, July 7 (Hina) - International organisations in Bosnia- Herzegovina demanded on Monday that Bosnian Serbs respect provisions of the Constitution in solving their political conflicts, stressing that the Bosnian Serb Assembly was no longer legitimate as it had been legally dissolved by Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic. We do not support any party but the Constitution, spokesman for the Office of the international High Representative Simon Haselock told a news conference in Sarajevo. UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said that there was a rift in the police force in the Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Some of the police in the northwestern Banja Luka area support Plavsic while some are still under Interior Ministry constrol, he added. Spokesman for the NATO-led peace Stabilisation Force (SFOR) Chris Riley rejected claims in an alleged letter of Sunday from Bosnian Serb Army commander Pero Colic to Plavsic. The letter, whose authenticity was doubtful and which was carried by the media in the Serb stronghold of Pale, said that the armed forces of the Moslem-Croat Federation and SFOR troops had been put in the highest state of alert and that "an action against the Serb Republic is being prepared." Neither the Federation army nor SFOR are in any extraordinary state of alert, Riley said. David Foley, a spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission, said that the Serb authorities in Pale denied Plavsic access to Bosnian Serb radio and television programmes. Foley said that that 10-15,000 people had turned out for a rally in Banja Luka in support of Plavsic while a rally organised in support of Karadzic had drawn only about 15 people. This speaks enough of the mood of ordinary people, he added. (hina) vm mm 071604 MET jul 97