CHERNOMYRDIN GETS BOSNIAN APPEAL ON ETHNIC CLEANSING.

Bosnianprime minister Haris Silajdzic told Reuters August 15 that hehas written to his Russian counterpart Viktor Chernomyrdin, requestingRussian intercession in Belgrade to stop the ethnic cleansingof Moslems and Croats around Banja Luka by Bosnian Serbs. Silajdzicdrew attention to the forcible separation of adult males fromtheir families, in an apparent repetition of the recent Serbianprocedure in Srebrenica where the families were expelled whilethe males are unaccounted for and are feared killed. PresidentBoris Yeltsin and the Duma’s majority recently charged, withoutevidence, that it was Serbs who were being subjected to ethniccleansing, contrary to the abundant evidence of Serbian expulsionof Moslems and Croats from parts of Bosnia and Serbia.

Three Balkan Countries For Lifting Yugoslav Sanctions.