51.  Nationalist Serb parties continued to insist on a separate Serb state while anti-nationalist parties insisted that Moslems, Croats and Serbs could once more live together peacefully.

52.  On Friday, four Bosnian Serb political parties joined two other Serb parties in condemning the ouster by Karadzic and called for a meeting of the Serb government.

53.  The coalition Povratak, which groups several Serb parties, became th in previous votes.

54.  The Bosnian Serb leader has said he will not contest the national elections but remains chief of the main Serb party in the Serb-held half of Bosnia.

55.  The head of the ruling Serb nationalist party, Aleksa Buha, told a party rally Saturday that Bosnia would inevitably disintegrate into separate states following the poll.

56.  The main Serb party in the region is the Independent Serb Democratic Party, led by Vojislav Stanimirovic.