MOSTAR'S E.U. ADMINISTRATION CARES FOR SECURITY ON ELECTION DAY

MOSTAR, June 20 (Hina) - The EU administrator of Mostar, Ricardo Perez Casado, on Thursday held closed-door talks with local Croat and Moslem officials on the safety of voters who would participate in municipal elections later this month. Casado asked that both mayors, or their deputies, be available on election day to solve possible crisis situations, the vice president of the Municipal Council of Croat-held west Mostar, Mile Puljic, said after the meeting. Pulic said that the EU administration proposed that polling stations, the number of which has not been determined yet, should be as close to the former line of separation as possible for security reasons. "We have agreed that buses taking voters from one end of the town to the other will be escorted by joint police patrols made up of officers from west and east Mostar and Western European police," he said. Puljic announced that the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia- Herzegovina (HDZ B-H) would hold its first election rally in Mostar on June 24. Later on, Casado discussed the same issue with Federation Interior Minister Avdo Hebib and his deputy Jozo Leutar. (hina) vm mm 201943 MET jun 96