NEXT WEEKS CRUCIAL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF BOSNIA'S INSTITUTIONS

SARAJEVO, Nov 5 (Hina) - The next few weeks will be critical for the establishment of joint institutions of power and for the future of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the office of international peace coordinator Carl Bildt said on Tuesday. The office strongly supported all efforts currently being undertaken to establish joint institutions of power because only the real division of power could preserve Bosnia-Herzegovina as a united and undivided country, spokesman Colum Murphy said in Sarajevo. Serb representatives to Bosnia-Herzegovina's Assembly were expected to sign a formal statement in the next few days which would make it possible for this body to meet. Murphy said that he was not acquainted with details of ongoing negotiations on this matter or where the national parliament would hold its first session. The three-man Bosnian Presidency met in the Serb-held Sarajevo suburb of Lukavica on Tuesday to further discuss the establishment of a Council of Ministers. Murphy said that Presidency members Kresimir Zubak, Alija Izetbegovic and Momcilo Krajisnik were expected to sign rules of procedure regulating the Presidency's work. (hina) vm jn 051534 MET nov 96