HIGH REP EXPECTS NEW AUTHORITIES TO COMPLY WITH PEACE ACCORD

( Editorial: --> 2211 ) SARAJEVO, Sept 22 (Hina) - The high international representative for Bosnia expects all bodies of authority and officials elected at the recent elections to fully comply with their obligations from the peace agreement and to support initiated reforms, spokesman Simon Haselock said in Sarajevo on Tuesday. Haselock refuted all allegations that high representative Carlos Westendorp was not willing to recognise the electoral results. A constituent of the electoral process was the candidates' confirmation that they were willing to implement the Dayton peace agreement, Westendorp's spokesman said. We expect all elected officials, and in particular the new Bosnian Serb government, to comply with the concrete obligations they have undertaken, he added. Westendorp wants the new authorities to firstly maintain the current climate of stability, peace and respect of law and order, as well as ethnic reintegration. Haselock said another priority was significant progress in the return of refugees and full implementation of property laws related to the return process. The third task new authorities will have to carry out is economic reforms and reconstruction of the country, he said. The high representative also demands the continuation of already initiated processes towards the reorganisation of the police and the judiciary, the rule of law, the strengthening of joint bodies of authority of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the abolition of all parallel authority structures. Finally, in this country civil society must again come to life in line with the demands set by the Council of Europe, Haselock emphasised. (hina) ha jn/sp 221610 MET sep 98