MOSTAR MAYOR FORWARDS LETTER TO ROBERT FROWICK

MOSTAR, Aug 18 (Hina) - Mostar Mayor Ivan Prskalo on Monday requested of Robert Frowick, the head of the mission in BH of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to change a decision of the mission's subcommission for appeals, under which three Croatian Democratic Union Party (HDZ) candidates for the Bosnian September municipal election in Mostar municipalities with Croat majority had been "taken off" the candidate lists. The subcommission for appeals reached the said decision last week, with the explanation that Mostar's HDZ was responsible for incendiary language broadcast by local Croat television in Mostar. In a letter to Frowick, Mayor Prskalo assessed the decision as "lacking in argument and unfounded". The mayor is of the opinion that the letter is making the pre-election atmosphere in Mostar "heated" again. Prskalo proposed that he and Frowick meet on 21 August to discuss the current situation and preparations for the local election. (hina) ha jn 182005 MET aug 97