BOSNIAN TV BREACHES RULES OF PROFESSIONAL REPORTING - OSCE

( Editorial: --> 5907 ) SARAJEVO, Dec 4 (Hina) - The OSCE mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina says the Sarajevo-based Bosnian Television breached severely rules of the professional conduct of the media, in its report on a recent incident which occurred at the interentity boundary when a Moslem (Bosniak) was killed. An OSCE spokesman in Sarajevo, Johan Verhayden, said on Thursday that the OSCE media commission would discuss the Sarajevo television station's act at its following session to judge how serious the breach of rules had been. The mission of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) held that by reporting on the killing of Ermin Rapo, 28, that happened three days ago in the surroundings of Sarajevo, Bosnian Television claimed groundlessly that the separation line along this interentity boundary was dangerous only for those from the Federation while Serbs moved in the area with no problem. It said that a Bosnian television reporter had no basis to draw conclusions about the circumstances under which the killing had happened, while an investigation was still under way. (hina) jn mš 041527 MET dec 97