KARADZIC TRAVELS FREELY AROUND SERB ENTITY

SARAJEVO, Dec 11 (Hina) - International policemen on Tuesday encountered the most wanted alleged war criminal in Bosnia- Herzegovina, Radovan Karadzic, but again they did not even try to apprehend him. A spokesman for the United Nations in Sarajevo confirmed on Wednesday that during yesterday's regular patrol at Pale (outside Sarajevo) two international policemen spotted local Bosnian Serb police blocking all traffic at the main road. This activity was not commonplace and the international policemen decided to wait from the corner and to see what would happen. Presently a convey of four cars appeared at the road. The first car was manned by regular policemen, the second car was jeep with five or six special policemen armed by 'Kalashnykov' guns , the spokesman Alexander Ivanko said in Sarajevo. The policemen spotted one of the most wanted men in the world, on the back seat in the third car of the 'Cheerokee' type and with licence plate 'P - 101160', Ivanko added. Radovan Karadzic was sitting calmly and looking at the surrounding, the U.N. spokesman said. The convoy with Karadzic was heading for the Famos factory at the Sarajevo outskirts of Lukavica where the office of the incumbent Bosnian Serb president, Biljana Plavsic, is located, but it has not been found out whether Karadzic really went there. International Police Force Commissioner, forwarded a strong protest to the Bosnian Serb interior minister Dragan Kijac at the event, and reminded him that it was impermissible that police escorted war criminals in such way. We reminded Serb entity's authorities of their commitment to ensuring only one kind of escort of Karadzic, and it is to The Hague, Ivanko said. Only the request to hand back 'Kalashnykov' guns, spotted in the escort, has been so far sent to the Pale authorities. The U.N. mission has informed the Bildt office and the International Tribunal for war crimes, about the event . The IFOR headquarters was informed of yesterday's event with a several-hour delay. A spokesman for the NATO, Bratt Boudreau, said that there had been no IFOR troops at Pale (at the moment when Karadzic had been spotted by the two international policemen), and therefore IFOR could not observe Karadzic's trip. Ivanko said it was necessary to review the system of communications in the international police, as it was not clear to them as well why it had taken several hours to inform the IFOR on that. Colum Murphy, a spokesman for international High Representative Bildt, said on Wednesday that the High Representative was extremely concerned by such developments. It was just one of reasons why Carl Bildt proposed at the London conference that a specially equipped and trained force should carry out arrest of war criminals, he added. Murphy and Ivanko stressed that IFOR had obviously no directions from political leaders to carry out this task, and that's why war criminals were still at large. (hina) mš 111401 MET dec 96