NATO SHOULD CONTINUE
                         RAIDS ON SERBS, SAYS MAHATHIR

   KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the Nato airstrikes
   on Bosnian Serb military targets should go on until the rebel Serbs
   were brought to the negotiating table.

   The Prime Minister, however, indicated that "too little had been done
   too late" to address the issue.

   "Nato should have done this years ago before 200,000 people were
   killed and 50,000 raped," he told reporters after opening the National
   Seminar for the Malaysian Public Service at a hotel here yesterday.

   Dr Mahathir also hit out at Russian President Boris Yeltsin for
   condemning the Nato attacks as "unfair" to the Bosnian Serbs.

   "When the Serbs attacked Bosnian Muslims he did not make any
   representations against the Serbs," he said.

   He also reiterated that Malaysian troops in Bosnia would continue to
   be deployed there even if the UN asked for their recall.

   Foreign Minister Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Organisation of
   Islamic Conference contact group would push ahead with a meeting here
   next month to discuss a common stand on Bosnia despite the Nato air
   strikes.

   "We have planned such a meeting and we are not at the moment going to
   change our plans," Abdullah said.

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