HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE ESTABLISHED IN MOSTAR

( Editorial: --> 3001 ) MOSTAR, March 28 (Hina) - The Centre for the Advancement of Human Rights and Democracy (CUPIDO) was established in the southern Bosnia-Herzegovina city of Mostar on Saturday. Milivoj Gagro was unanimously elected as the centre's president while Dzemal Sunje became the centre's secretary. The programme principles stress the centre is an independent, non- government and non-profit association of citizens whose aim is the promotion of human rights and democratic freedoms in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. An important activity of the centre will be media promotion of values of modern society, it was said at the founding assembly. Helsinki Committee for Bosnia-Herzegovina president Srdjan Dizdarevic told the gathering that CUPIDO would bring stronger ideas of civil society to the Mostar area. Participants in the founding assembly unanimously agreed that the centre be included in the work of an alternative citizens' parliament in which 14 non-government associations from the whole of Bosnia are active. (Hina) jn mb /ha 281454 MET mar 98