PHONE CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO BH ENTITIES TO START MONDAY

SARAJEVO, Aug 2 (Hina) - Partial telephone connection between the (Croat-Muslim) Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Republika Srpska should be set up at 00.00 hours of 4 August, Sarajevo's dailies said on Saturday, reporting a statement by BH's Postal and Telecommunications Services. As of Monday it will be possible to communicate by phone between the BH Federation and Banja Luka and Trebinje (Serb entity) via access codes which were in use when BH had a common telephone system, the statement said. Until now, telephone communication between the BH Federation and the Bosnian Serb entity was possible only via the Yugoslav access code, and was therefore very difficult. The phone systems of Bosnia's two entities should be connected entirely during September after the completion of a European Union-financed project. (hina) ha 021128 MET aug 97