COMPROMISE SOLUTION NOT LIKELY, EU IN MOSTAR SAYS

MOSTAR, Jan 26 (Hina) - European Union administrator in Mostar accepted the offer by the Croatian government to send its police force to the city. EU administrator Hans Koschnick forwarded on Friday a letter to Bosnian Federation President Kresimir Zubak in which he said he accepted the Croatian government offer, Koschnick's deputy Klaus Metcher told a news conference on Friday. #L# Metcher said that the question of boundaries between the future six municipalities in the city was the most delicate one and the main cause of the row between two sides. He described the views of Croat and Bosniac side as so distant from each other, that no compromise seemed viable. Final decision was to be made by Koschnick himself, after his return from Brussels, where he would attend the session of the EU Ministerial Council. He was due to return on Monday. But whatever he said, Metcher added, it was most likely that both sides would be discontent, since their views were unbridgeable. Internationally appointed arbitrator for the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Roberts Owen, delegated the arbitration to Koschnick. (Hina) jn bk 261846 MET jan 96