BOSNIAN SERB NGO RESPONDS TO POLICE REFORM WITH SECESSION THREATS
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 31, 2005

Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Banja Luka, 30 January: The (Bosnian) Serb Republic (RS) Association of Former Camp Inmates will demand that the deputies of the RS People's Assembly reject High Representative Paddy Ashdown's proposal envisaging a regional police organization and allowing the police to cross entity borders.

In a statement issued today, the association warned that, if its demand was not met, it would urge the RS People's Assembly to call a referendum on the Serb Republic's secession from Bosnia-Hercegovina.

"The Serb inmates are also against attempts to do away with the RS Interior Ministry and to transfer its powers to Bosnia-Hercegovina because it is known that, according to the Dayton Agreement, only the entities are responsible for the (territorial) organization of the police," the RS Association of Former Camp Inmates said in the statement signed by its chairman Branislav Dukic.
 

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1221 gmt 30 Jan 05

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