News bulletin, 4.00 PM, August 22, 1995

TO THE EVENTS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA. MIHAIL DEMURIN, A FOREIGN MINISTRY'S OFFICIAL, SAID IT IS INCORRECT TO STATE THAT PROCEEDINGS OF RUSSIAN-YUGOSLAVIAN INTER-GOVERNMENTAL JOINT COMMITTEE ON TRADE, ECONOMICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION WHICH STARTED ON MONDAY, HAS AN EXTRA-ORDINARY CHARACTER AND PROVES THE DECISION TO ENFORCE UNILATERAL LIFTING OF INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST BELGRADE, INTERFAX REPORTED. IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TEN-DAY MOBILIZATION FOR BOSNIA, RUSSIAN BRANCH OF THE TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY WERE PICKETING TODAY THE MISSION OF EUROPEAN UNION.

MR PAPADOPOULOS, CHARGE D'AFFAIR OF EUROPEAN UNION IN MOSCOW HAVE GOTTEN THE SHEETS WITH RUSSIAN CITIZENS' SIGNATURES IN SUPPORT OF BOSNIA AND PARTY'S REQUEST TO INCLUDE IMMEDIATELY THE REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA INTO EUROPEAN UNION. NIKOLAJ KHRAMOV, LEADER OF RUSSIAN BRANCH OF THE RADICAL PARTY, UNDERLINED THAT DELAY WITH SOLVING OF THIS QUESTION COULD TURN INTO TRAGEDY.

/// KHRAMOV'S ACT ///

ADHESION OF BOSNIA TO EUROPEAN UNION COULD CREATE A POLITICAL

BASE FOR EUROPE TO UNDERTAKE SOME DECISIVE STEPS IN ORDER TO

END WAR, AGGRESSION, GENOCIDE WHICH ARE IN COURSE IN THE VERY

HEART OF EUROPE.

/// END KHRAMOV'S ACT ///

IN ADDITION, NIKOLAJ KHRAMOV SAID: IT'S TIME FINALLY TO REALIZE - WHAT'S GOING ON IN BOSNIA IS NOT A CIVIL WAR, BUT RATHER THE SERBIAN AGGRESSION.

DMITRIJ HITAROV, INFORMATION SERVICE, EKHO MOSKVY