JUDICIARY IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA IS CORRUPT - ELIZABETH REHN

( Editorial: --> 4142 ) SARAJEVO, 27 Nov (Hina) - The newly-appointed head of the U.N. Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Elizabeth Rehn, on Thursday stated that the reorganisation of the judicial system in Bosnia- Herzegovina would be one of the main tasks of her mandate. Rehn is paying a visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina as the UN human rights special rapporteur for the former Yugoslavia. She said that the judiciary in Bosnia-Herzegovina was very "corrupt" and that the international community should ensure measures for its reorganisation. This should be performed through a special programme for training just like it was done with police forces, she told a news conference. She said that she viewed her appointment to her new post, announced last night at UN headquarters in New York, as both great commendation and great challenge. Commenting on results of her current mission during which she visited Doboj, Bijeljina and Srebrenica (towns under Bosnian Serb control), Rehn said that the process of the return of refugees was impermissibly slow. She is planning to visit Mostar and Tomislavgrad as well. There is still no progress in that field, she said, adding that the current property laws had to be changed if the return of refugees was to be accomplished. She also supported the coordination of efforts of the international community and all sides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, so that numerous mass graves could be investigated and truth about the fate of a large number of missing people discovered. (hina) mš rm 271428 MET nov 97