SECURITY AND EDUCATION IN BOSNIA - OSCE'S NEW TASKS

SARAJEVO, Oct 12 (Hina) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) believes that local authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have successfully organised elections and in the future attention will be directed to security and the reorganisation of the education system in the country, the OSCE chairman and Portuguese Foreign Minister, Antonio Martins da Cruz, said in Sarajevo on Saturday. #L# Education and security are of crucial significance for Bosnia's future, Cruz said and confirmed that the OSCE would continue to be active in Bosnia regardless of the fact that the organisation had ended the most important role in the country after the war - organising elections. Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija said the OSCE would help authorities in Bosnia to fulfil conditions necessary to join NATO, the Partnership for Peace programme and to accelerate dialogue with the European Union which would eventually lead to Bosnia's joining the association. International mediation and assistance in the reorganisation of the education system in Bosnia is necessary, Lagumdzija said. He the current education system, which practically reflects ethnic divisions established by the war, to be changed. Lagumdzija said he expected a package of education reforms to be completed and presented in a month at the latest. (hina) it sb