THE Bosnian Serb Prime Minister, Mr Gojko Klickovic, confirmed yesterday that the Bosnian Serb leader, Dr Radovan Karadzic, would quit as "president", but only under certain conditions.
Mr Klickovic told reporters that Dr Karadzic would remain as president until the countrywide elections scheduled for September 14th, and would demand that the international community guarantee the security of the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
Mr Klickovic also said Dr Karadzic would quit only if the question of control of the strategic northern city of Brcko was settled in the Bosnian Serbs' favour.
The prime minister said that Dr Karadzic would not head the ruling Serb Democratic Party (SDS) election list. It was not immediately clear whether he would appear elsewhere on the list.
Earlier, the international community's high representative to Bosnia, Mr Carl Bildt, said he had received no notification of such an offer, but the acceptable condition, he said, was that the Bosnian Serbs abide by the Dayton peace accord.
The accord calls for indicted war criminals such as Dr Karadzic to step down from power and face trial at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
. The crucial municipal elections in the divided southern town Mostar will be neither perfect an outright failure, a senior official told journalists yesterday.
"These elections will not be perfect but they are the first step towards the normalisation of political and social life in this city", Mr Perez Casado, the EU administrator in Mostar, told a press conference.