BOSNIAN FIVE-PARTY COALITION WANTS ELECTIONS DELAYED IN SOME AREAS

AREAS $ SARAJEVO, July 9 (Hina) - A coalition of five Bosnian political parties demanded on Tuesday that general elections scheduled for mid-September be delayed in some municipalities because of a lack of minimum security conditions. The United List for Bosnia-Herzegovina said in a statement it had filed a request to international mediator Christian Schwarz-Schilling to temporarily delay elections in Croatian Defence Council (HVO)-controlled areas, except Livno, and in Sanski Most, Kljuc and Bosanski Petrovac. The coalition, including the Social Democratic Party, the Bosnian Moslem Organization, the Croatian Peasant Party, the Union of Bosnian Social Democrats and the Republican Party, demanded that the international community monitor the freedom of political activity in those areas. "We believe that only after minimum conditions for fair elections have been met can they be organized in the above- mentioned municipalities," the statement said. (hina) vm 091203 MET jul 96