FROWICK CONDEMNS MEDIA ATTACKS ON CROAT OFFICIALS

SARAJEVO, Sept 10 (Hina) - The OSCE Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday relayed the statement of the Mission's head Robert Frowick in which he said that the OSCE did not stand behind documents published recently in the Sarajevo "Dani" magazine as OSCE's report on the situation in southwestern Herzegovina. Ambassador Frowick stressed that the expression 'false' was the only one appropriate to describe the text, adding that that was in no case a document behind which the OSCE stood. The OSCE Mission was examining legal questions concerning the issue, Frowick said. He condemned statements concerning statements made by political officials from the Bosnian Federation, Croatia and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party which had been published in the DANI magazine and imputed to OSCE. Frowick also warned that people had to consider the moment at which the article had been published, and reiterated that the views relayed by the article in no way coincided with the views of the OSCE Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (hina) lm jn 102032 MET sep 97