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Klickovic Says Karadzic Will Leave... Under Conditions
Klickovic told reporters that Karadzic would remain as
president until nationwide electins scheduled for September 14,
provided the international community guarantees the security of
the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
Klickovic also said Karadzic would go only if the question
of control of the strategic northern city of Brcko was settled
in the Bosnian Serbs' favour.
Brcko is the narrowest point in the Bosnian Serb territory,
and falls midway between the east and west halves of Republika
Srpska. The issue of who controls the town is due to be decided
by arbitration.
The prime minister said although Karadzic would quit, he
would still remain head of the ruling Serb Democratic Party
(SDS) -- a decision Belgrade radio said had been reached at a
late night session of the Republika Srpska parliament.
Klickovic also said Karadzic would not head the ruling Serb
Democratic Party (SDS) election list for nationwide elections on
September 14, although it was not immediately clear whether he
would appear elsewhere on the list.
It was also not clear if the demand for "security
guarantees" implies sovereign status for Republika Srpska --
precisely what separatist Bosnian Serb leaders have been
fighting for. Such status would be unacceptable to the West
which insists that Bosnia remain a unified state.
The conditional offer also leaves Karadzic with considerable
influence over Bosnian Serb politics in the run-up to the
September poll as president and beyond, as SDS leader.
Earlier the international community's high representative to
Bosnia, Carl Bildt, said he had received no notification of the
offer, but he said the only acceptable condition was that the
Bosnian Serbs abide by the Dayton peace accord.
The accord calls for indicted war criminals such as Karadzic
to relinquish all power and face trial in the war crimes
tribunal in The Hague.
The Bosnian Serbs' offer would be in direct conflict with
the international community which accuses Karadzic of trying to
sabotage the Dayton peace accord, and which does not want him to
have any influence over the election.
Diplomatic sources said it was unlikely that either the
international community or Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic
would accept deal.
Milosevic and his Federal Yugoslav and Montenegrin
counterparts on Monday told senior Bosnian Serb deputies that
Karadzic must resign for the sake of all Serb people, or face
fresh sanctions. |
PALE, Bosnia, June 26 (Reuters) - The Bosnian Serb Prime
Minsiter Gojko Klickovic on Wednesday said the Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic had agreed to quit as president, but
only under certain conditions.
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