BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN SERB LEADER BILJANA PLAVSIC MEETS RUSSIA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER NIKOLAI AFANASYEVSKI.

Record ID: 646279

  • Title: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN SERB LEADER BILJANA PLAVSIC MEETS RUSSIA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER NIKOLAI AFANASYEVSKI.
  • Date: 2nd September 1997
  • Summary: BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA (SEPTEMBER 2, 1997) (RTV(W) - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/MV: BOSNIAN SERB PRESIDENT BILLJANA PLAVSIC MEETING US AMBASSADOR TO SARAJEVO RICHARD KAUZLARCH (5 SHOTS) 0.20 2. CU: KAUZLARCH SAYING "AS IA SAID IN MY STATEMENT ON MY ARRIVAL I AM HERE TO SUPPORT BOSNIA HERZEGOVINIA MADE UP OF TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES. I INTEND TO BE TRAVELLING AROUND THIS COUNTRY WITH THE MESSAGE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF DAYTON IMPLEMENTATION, THE IMPORTANCE OF REFUGESS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PLURALISTIC DEMOCRACY (ENGLISH) 1.06 3. GV/MV: PLAVSIC MEETING RUSSIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER NIKOLAI AFANASYEVSKI (8 SHOTS) 1.45 4. CU: PLAVSIC CALLING FOR FAIR AND CORRECT ELECTIONS (S. CROAT) 2.04 5. CU: AFANASYEVSKI SAYING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE RESPECTED UNTIL SUCH A TIME AS ELECTIONS ARE HELD (RUSSIAN) 2.32 6. GV: OFFICIALS (2 SHOTS) 2.48 Initials s.3.2 - p.3.2 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 17th September 1997 13:00
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  • Location: BANJA LUKE, BOSNIA
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  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Reuters ID: LVA7UWWUTY78Y8VI9QC7T0EL4LPW
  • Story Text: INTRO: The President of the Bosnian Serb entity in Bosnia Biljana Plavsic met with Russia's deputy foreign minister, Nikolai Afanasyevski in Banja Luka on Tuesday evening (Sept 2).

    -------------------------------------------------------------------- Afanasyevski, had met on Monday with Plavsic's hardline rival, Momcilo Krajisnik and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

    Following Tuesday's meeting, Afanasyevski said that the leadership dispute in Bosnia ought to be resolved by political means and that the wish of the Bosnian Serb people should be respected.

    Plavsic said that any elections to choose a new leadership for the Bosnian Serbs ought to be fair and correct.

    Plavsic also met the US ambassador to Sarajevo Richard Kauzlarch, who said following the meeting that he supports a multi-ethnic Bosnia. Kauslarich said in Plavsic's northern Bosnian stronghold Tuesday the United States would insist on the elections going ahead.


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