KARADZIC LOYALISTS STEP UP PRESSURE ON BOSNIAN SERB PRESIDENT

SARAJEVO, Aug 16 (Hina) - Senior officials of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS), which is still under the direct control of Bosnian Serb war-time leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, called on Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic on Saturday to accept a constitutional court ruling that her decision to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional, or to resign. In a statement carried by Serb-run radio in Pale, southeast of Sarajevo, the Serb member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's collective presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik, said that Plavsic would end up in self-isolation unless she accepted the constitutional court decision. The radio quoted Aleksa Buha, acting president of the SDS, as saying that if Plavsic continued to insist on the holding of parliamentary elections in October she should resign so that elections for a new president of the Serb entity could be held. Buha said that the international community, regardless of the constitutional court ruling, would continue to insist on new parliamentary elections, thus supporting Plavsic. The international community "is getting closer to a line the crossing of which would mean direct introduction of a protectorate," Buha said. "In that case, Biljana Plavsic should return her presidential mandate to the SDS because she was nominated by that party. Only after that can we hold new elections," he added. Deputy High Representative Gerd Wagner told a news conference in Sarajevo on Saturday that international organisations in Bosnia- Herzegovina had nothing to add to a statement released Friday night, which described the decision by the Bosnian Serb constitutional court as political and contrary to the Constitution. The statement said that there was no reason for not holding parliamentary elections in the Serb entity in October as announced. (hina) vm 161852 MET aug 97