SERB PEOPLE'S PARTY HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE

ZAGREB, Mar 15 (Hina) - There were several reasons to question the conditions for the holding of elections, President of the Serb People's Party (SNS), Milan Djukic, said on Saturday at a press conference in Zagreb, while speaking of the elections, their legality and conditions that they take place in the set time. After SNS's recent visit to the Croatian Danubian area, Djukic said that a number of Croatian citizens still did not know whether voters' lists were based on the 1991 census. Still unclear was how and why Croatian citizens who were refugees, living in Croatia, but had after 15 January 1996 temporarily settled in the Croatian Danubian area, could not vote, Djukic added. He also pointed out that election units for the newly-formed Serb municipalities were not known, in spite of the fact that the deadline for the delivery of candidate lists was underway. Election commissions on a local level in the Croatian Danubian area had not been established, Djukic further said, and added that also unknown was the use of and approach to local media for all Croatian political options wanting to present their candidates. The discrepancy between undertaken obligations by Transitional Administrator Jacques Klein and the Croatian legislation was evident, Djukic said, as was the manipulation with the list of war criminals. Speaking on the violation of human rights, he said that "it is not individual, but collective". SNS was working on a document which would prove this, Djukic said, adding that a copy of the document would be forwarded to the Croatian President, the Croatian Premier and the Strasbourg-based International Human Rights Tribunal. SNS Vice President Nedjeljko Visnjic assessed that, at the moment, there was not enough political will to exercise the rights of the national association of Serbs guaranteed by the Constitution. (hina) ha 151607 MET mar 97