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Bildt: No Cooperation with Plavsic, New Bosnian Serb vice President
"It is obvious that the international community cannot accept contacts with Dr Pavsic in her function as 'assisting' a person who is seeking to hang on to public office in clear violation of the Peace Agreement," Bildt said in a statement faxed to Reuterss.
Bildt's move is the latest in a battle to force out the isolationist Bosnian Serb leaders widely seen as the greatest threat to the Dayton peace accord which ended the 43-month war in Bosnia. Plavsic, who assumed responsibility for contacts with the international community, is a loyal nationalist sharing Karadzic's opposition to ethnic reintegration of Bosnia.
Under the Dayton peace deal signed last December, Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic should have stepped down from office months ago and faced the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Karadzic is showing no sign of relenting to international pressure and has managed to sideline all moderates in the northwest town of Banja Luka whom Bildt was grooming as an alternative leadership to the hardliners in Karadzic's powerbase at Pale.
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SARAJEVO, May 30 (Reuters) - Bosnia mediator Carl Bildt on Thursday ruled out cooperation with a hardline leader appointed by Bosnian Serb "president" Radovan Karadzic. Karadzic, twice indicted by the war crimes tribunal in The
Hague, earlier this month dismissed his moderate prime minister Rajko Kasagic. Instead, he appointed hardliner Gojko Klickovic as Prime Minister, and delegated some of his own presidential powers to "vice-president" Biljana Plavsic.
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