STEINER: MOSTAR WON'T BE ANYBODY'S CITY

SARAJEVO, August 4 (Hina) - "In case the European Union and representatives of the West-European Union decide to leave Mostar, IFOR and international police forces will certainly have to enter that city. There IFOR will perform its regular duties as everywhere else. We won't allow for any vacuum and Mostar will be nobody's city", deputy to the civilian peace plan monitor Michael Steiner told the Sarajevo "Oslobodjenje" newspaper, explaining that the international police would supervise the work of local police in Western Mostar. "This refers to the carrying of arms on the part of Croat policemen, their behaviour and to supervisory points", Steiner said, adding that IFOR would remove any unlawful supervisory points. Commenting on the decisions of the Federation Forum meeting held this week in Sarajevo under the chairmanship of special U.S. envoy for the Balkans John Kornblum, Steiner said that plans for the transfer of all authority to the Federation organs must be set by 8 August, but added that this did not mean the functioning of Herzeg Bosnia would end by that date. "There will be a contract specifying what must be transferred from the central to the federal government and the transfer of Herzeg Bosnia's functions to the federal government. This contract will be accompanied by precise deadlines and explanations as to how and when it will be done, maybe all at one time, maybe step by step", Steiner said. He concluded by saying that joint institutions should be formed within seven weeks and that it was in the interest of both partners to do so before the September elections. (hina) ha 041256 MET aug 96