BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY REACHES AGREEMENT ON A FEW ISSUES

SARAJEVO, Aug 8 (Hina) - Following 14-hour-long talks held from Thursday evening until early Friday morning, Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-man Presidency reached agreements on the allocation of ambassadorial posts, establishment of the country's telecommunications system, and functioning of a permanent military commission. During the talks U.S. diplomats led by Richard Holbrooke acted as intermediaries. Holbrooke who held a news conference in Sarajevo on Friday morning before his trip to the northwestern Bosnian city of Banja Luka, said that agreement had not been made on a layout of the transitional Bosnian currency and on a design of the country's flag, in spite of made efforts. Under the deal, 13 out of Bosnia's 33 ambassadorial posts in the world will be taken by Moslems (Bosniaks), 11 will be taken by Serb representatives whereas nine will be allocated to the Croat party. A deputy to the international community's High Representative to Bosnia, Gerd Wagner, who participated in last night's talks, said on Friday that the Moslem party would name the ambassador to the United Nations, and Serbs would appoint the Bosnian ambassador to the United States. Croats would appoint their representative to the ambassadorial post in Tokyo but the Moslem side should agree on the appointment to this post, he explained. Holbrooke told reporters that under the deal on the united telecommunications system, there would be a single code for Bosnia- Herzegovina, and additional codes for Sarajevo, the Croat-Moslem Federation and the Serb Republic. The agreement on the permanent military commission consists of provisions on how this Bosnian joint body will function exactly. Talks we held last night were a little like talks in Dayton, as we again applied shuttle diplomacy, Holbrooke said commenting on last night's negotiations. He added that some of negotiators shouted at one another, but eventually showed that they were able to cooperate. At the news conference, Holbrooke refused any possibility that (Serb) war crimes suspects be tried on the territory of the Serb entity, as an indictee, Karadzic, and a member of the Bosnian presidency, Krajisnik, had proposed. Besides Holbrooke and Wagner, a newly-appointed deputy to the High Representative, Jacques Klein, a special U.S. envoy for implementation of peace accords, Robert Gelbard, and a U.S. Finance Under-secretary David Lipton participated in the talks. (hina) jn mš 081140 MET aug 97