UN, SFOR ACCELERATE REORGANISATION OF SERB SPECIAL POLICE

POLICE $ PALE, Aug 13 (Hina) - UN and NATO-led SFOR forces in Bosnia- Herzegovina delivered to Bosnian Serb senior officials a draft agreement on reorganisation of Bosnian Serb police and they are expecting the beginning of negotiations on this matter as soon as possible. A UN spokesman, Alexander Ivanko, said at a news conference at Pale (outside Sarajevo) on Wednesday that SFOR commander, General Shinseki, the UN mission's head Kai Eide, and international police commissioner Manfred Seitner, talked about the issue with Biljana Plavsic, the Serb republic's president, in Banja Luka. Ivanko said that international representatives would not accept the current Bosnian Serb interior Dragan Kijac's participation in the negotiations on the police restructuring. Kijac persistently rejected talks on the reorganisation of police, and that's why the international community severed all contacts with him, and Biljana Plavsic suspended him. But, he remains at the post of interior minister, and is believed to enjoy the support of a former Serb leader and a war criminal, Radovan Karadzic. Special police forces should be certified by international police by August 31. An SFOR spokesman, John Blakeley, said that NATO troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina continued inspecting headquarters of special police units in both Bosnian entities, searching for banned weaponry or military equipment. Blakeley announced that such inspections would be conducted at Pale this week. Ivanko said on Wednesday that the international police possessed evidence that Bosnian Serb special police units provided security and escort for Karadzic. (hina) jn mš 131524 MET aug 97