TOP MUSLIM PARTY CONSIDERS BOYCOTT OF BOSNIAN ELECTIONS

( Editorial: --> 8003 ) SARAJEVO, July 16 (Hina) - The largest Bosniak (Muslim) party in Bosnia-Herzegovina has announced it could boycott this September's elections unless municipal poll results in Srebrenica are not implemented. Srebrenica was a Bosniak enclave in eastern Bosnia which, despite being declared a United Nations protection zone, was seized by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, who committed untold crimes against the town's population. "If Srebrenica's provisional executive committee does not at least start functioning by September, the SDA (Party of Democratic Action) does not exclude the possibility it will boycott the forthcoming general elections as a sign of protest," party vice- president Halid Genjac said in an interview published on Thursday in the Sarajevo daily "Dnevni avaz". Genjac said that Srebrenica was a painful issue for Bosniaks and it was the only municipality in the Bosnian Serb entity (Republika Srpska) where they received an absolute majority, yet the results of last September's local elections had not been implemented. "We blame Premier (Milorad) Dodik and the Republika Srpska government for this situation," he said. Ţhe SDA also leads the Bosniak-dominated Coalition for a United and Democratic Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Hina) mbr jn 161237 MET jul 98