FOUR BOSNIAN MUNICIPALITIES TO BE DENIED INTERNATIONAL AID

SARAJEVO, April 18 (Hina) - The deputy high representative for implementation of civilian aspects of the Bosnia peace agreement, Michael Stainer, said on Thursday that the international community would withhold financial aid to four municipalities in the Bosnian Federation which had failed to establish transitional local government bodies. In a letter to Federation president Kresimir Zubak, his deputy Ejup Ganic, and premiers Izudin Kapetanovic and Hasan Muratovic, Steiner recalled that transitional municipal assemblies should have been formed in Stolac, Capljina, Vares and Bugojno by April 9 in line with the Sarajevo agreement of March 30. Steiner called on Federation authorities not to provide financial assistance to the four municipalities. He announced that he would demand from the World Bank, the European Union Commission and other international organizations and donor countries to withhold all but humanitarian aid to the municipalities until legal government bodies were established. (hina) vm jn 182146 MET apr 96