SDA WILLING TO DISCUSS A DISTRICT WITHIN SARAJEVO CANTON

SARAJEVO, March 17 (Hina) - The vice president of the Moslem-led Democratic Action Party (SDA), Edhem Bicakic, said in an interview published in the Sunday edition of the Sarajevo-based daily "Oslobodjenje" that the Bosnian Federation government would be asked to resign unless a federal customs service was established by the end of this month. Bicakic said that there was no other way to break the deadlock in the process of establishing the Federation. He added that the establishment of the federal customs service would strengthen the government's position and "accelerate the dismantling of Herzeg-Bosnia, on which the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) has already made a political decision." The SDA was willing to consider a proposal for establishing a district within the Sarajevo canton "on the model of Mostar or some other city community," he said. Bicakic noted that Sarajevo was also the capital of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina and that the Serbs living in it could not be treated as "others" if the whole country was to be reintegrated. (hina) vm 171309 MET mar 96