BILDT'S OFFICE HOPES FOR AGREEMENT ON MINISTERIAL COUNCIL

SARAJEVO, Nov 30 (Hina) - The office of the international community's high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Carl Bildt, on Saturday expressed hope that the Bosnian Presidency would reach an agreement on establishing a Council of Ministers. We hope that progress will be made on this issue at the Presidency meeting in Sarajevo later today, but also that an agreement on the release of prisoners of war will be reached, spokesman for the office Column Murphy told a news conference in Sarajevo. Murphy recalled that Saturday's session of the three-man Bosnian Presidency was probably the last one before a London conference on the implementation of the peace agreement. He said that the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina deserved a government that would be able to assume responsibility for the accumulated problems. Murphy welcomed the first ruling by the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Drazen Erdemovic case. He said that all war crimes suspects wanted by the tribunal should be aware that, sooner or later, they would end up in The Hague. Murphy stressed that perpetrators must pay for their horrible crimes. (hina) vm 301321 MET nov 96