PETRITSCH:IT'S NECESSARY TO SPEED UP REGISTRATION OF VOTERS

ZAGREB, Nov 3 (Hina) - A process of registering eligible voters for the coming election in Croatia should be accelerated, and this particularly refers to Croatian Serbs who live in Bosnia. In addition, voters' registers should be released, said the international High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petritsch, in Zagreb at a news conference which he held after his meetings with Croatian Premier Zlatko Matesa, Minister for relations with Bosnia, Milan Kovac, Deputy Foreign Minister Ivo Sanader and leaders of Opposition Six, on Wednesday. Today's talks revolved around the coming parliamentary election in Croatia, Petritsch told reporters. He added that he had relayed to his interlocutors the international community's concern over the new electoral law, particularly over the voting outside Croatia and the slow registration of voters. Petritsch said that Croatia, being a signatory to the Dayton peace accords, should play a constructive role in the implementation of that treaty. This particularly refers to Bosnian Croats, who should take part in the political life of Bosnia in order to protect their position and exercise their rights as they are the least numerous constituent people in that country. The other important issue which was discussed in Zagreb on Wednesday is the re-broadcasting of programme of the Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) in Bosnia. A spokesman for the High Representative's Office in Mostar, Chris Reily, told the Zagreb news conference that the HRT was illegally using frequencies in Bosnia, which hindered the constitution of the (Croat-Moslem) federal television with two channels, one in the Croatian language and the other in the Bosniak language. (hina) ms