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C $ ONFERENCE IN ZAGREB ZAGREB, 18 March (Hina) - Organized Supervision of Elections by Citizens (GONG) is a non-government and non-party organization established with the aim of supervising and controlling the election of representatives to the Parliament House of Counties, educating and organizing citizens for a non-biased, non-party and objective supervision of the forthcoming elections, GONG executive director Mladen Momcinovic told a press conference on Tuesday. #L# 'We are not interested in the election results but the legality of the election process', Momcinovic said. Zoran Pusic, the head of GONG, added that the activities of organizations such as GONG are legally based on the documents of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), whose member is also Croatia, in the Croatian Constitution and the Constitutional Law on Human Rights and Freedoms and the Rights of Ethnic and National Communities or Minorities. GONG, which was founded last week, has also addressed the head of the State Election Commission, Ivan Mrkonjic, asking to be accepted as an equal partner in following the elections. The elections in the Croatian Danubian area would be supervised also by the Association for Peace and Human Rights from Darda (under U.N. administration) and the Centre for Peace and Human Rights from Osijek. (hina) rm jn 181651 MET mar 97