JAHORINA, Bosnia-Herzegovina. July 6: The hardline Bosnian Serb Parliament passed a law on Saturday enabling it to strip Serb President Biljana Plavsic of her powers and transfer them to the Serbs' Supreme Defence Council, reports AFP.

The parliament, meeting here in defiance of Plavsic's decree dismissing it voted an emergency law which hands power to the defence council "in case of the absence of impeachment of the president of the republic."

The Supreme Defence Council comprises Plavsic, the Serb member on the three-member Bosnian presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb Vice-President. the Parliament Speaker. Prime Minister, defence and interior ministers and the head of the armed forces.