SARAJEVO, May 20 (Hina) - A spokesman for Carl Bidlt, the
international community's high representative for Bosnia, on Monday
expressed doubt that changes in the Bosnian Serb leadership would
have any serious effect on the peace process in Bosnia.
Last week, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had replaced
Serb premier Rajko Kasagic with Gojko Klickovic and on Saturday he
announced that another hardliner, his deputy Biljana Plavsic, would
fill in for him in contacts with the international community.
We find Mrs Plavsic, who is supposed to fill in for Karadzic,
to be an extreme hardliner and an ultrantionalist. By installing
her, Karadzic is obviusly trying to preserve his influence, Bildt's
spokesman, Column Murphy, told a press conference in Sarajevo on
Monday.
Murphy said that Bildt's office would cooperate with Plavsic
and new premier Gojko Klickovic, who undoubtedly represented
isolationist forces in the Serb leadership, because they were not
on a list of persons indicted for war crimes.
However, the international community would also continue
contacts with ousted premier Kasagic and with all representatives
of moderate political forces in the Serb entity, he added.
Murphy said that during weekend talks in Pale, Bildt had won
firm assurances from the Serb leadership that Karadzic would
withdraw from public life. He added that Bildt's office would
demand a special document to be signed as a confirmation of
Karadzic's withdrawal.
It would be a good sign if Karadzic's face and his funny
hairstyle stopped appearing in public, UN spokesman Alexander
Ivanko said.
Ivanko called for caution in assessment of Bosnian Serb moves
because experience from the four-year-long war in Bosnia showed
that the Serb leadership could be little trusted, citing as an
illustration 36 violated ceasefires.
The announcement that in international contacts Karadzic would
be replaced by Plavsic, the Sarajevo-based daily "Oslobodjenje"
described as "first-class cynicism." "That woman, judging by her
mental structure and racist ideas, could only be a good governor of
a Nazi concentration camp," Oslobodjenje said in its Monday's
editorial.
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