ASHDOWN DEALT "DIRECT BLOW" TO DEMOCRACY -BOSNIAN SERB OPPOSITION LEADER
SRNA - June 30, 2004

Banja Luka, 30 June: The SNSD (Alliance of Independent Social Democrats) deputy Milorad Dodik has said that this party will work towards overcoming the current situation following the changes which the High Representative (in Bosnia-Hercegovina Paddy Ashdown) has made in the (Bosnian) Serb Republic (RS) and that the SNSD will take over the responsibility and the power in the RS when the people give it to the party.

"The RS and the People's Party (presumably People's Assembly) can overcome this situation and go forward," Dodik said and expressed hope that institutions would continue with normal work already tomorrow.

The SRS (Serb Radical Party) deputy, Milanko Mihajlica, is of the opinion that the RS "has suffered the biggest blow in its existence and that Ashdown's decision is a direct blow to the BiH (Bosnia-Hercegovina) democracy".

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 0906 gmt 30 Jun 04

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