21.  Prosecutors said Talic and Brdjanin belonged to the Bosnian Serb leadership that had conceived the creation of an ethnically pure Serb state in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

22.  Prosecutors say he was behind a systematic plan to create a larger Serb state through the forced expulsion and murder of non-Serbs.

23.  Serb state TV announced that he had been arrested, but close aides issued denials, and the government did not immediately issue an official statement.

24.  Speeches to the assembly combined customary Serb bravado with moderation, reflecting mixed feelings at only partially achieving the goal of an independent Serb state.

25.  The city, which has several factories, is considered vital to the economic survival of the self-proclaimed Serb state in Bosnia.

26.  The Dayton agreement also meant giving up the nationalist goal of a Serb state in Bosnia.

27.  The dream of the Serb state in Croatia was disappearing in shell smoke.

28.  The former Yugoslav republics agreed today to create a Serb state in Bosnia, a Bosnian diplomat said following a day of U.S.-sponsored talks.

29.  The meeting marked the first time such a high-level delegation from Republika Srpska, the Serb state within Bosnia, has visited the tribunal.

30.  The republic was a Serb state which broke away from Croatia in the early days of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.