NO AGREEMENT IN MOSTAR - EU SPOKESMAN

MOSTAR, Aug 5 (Hina) - After a whole day of talks with interested parties, both here in Mostar and in the whole world, no agreement has been reached, spokesman for the city's EU Administration told a press conference on Monday evening. "The Moslems have signed the 'concerted action' agreement and the Croats were a few words short of signing it," Gasic said. "Maybe they will do so in the next few hours, but for the moment, their naswer is NO," he said. The Agreement contains eight clauses and the sides have reached complete agreement on all of them, except for a provision contained in Clause 4. Under that provision, the local authority would start functioning within two months no matter whether the Bosnian Federation Supreme Court had ruled on the Croats' objection regarding irregularities at the Bonn polling place. The Croats find it unacceptable that local authority bodies start functioning before the ruling. "The compromise was proposed by the European Union and we were hoping that it would be accepted by both sides. However, there are no talks at the moment. Special envoy Garrod and the Irish representative are engaged with reporting the stiuation to the EU governments," Gasic concluded. (hina) as 052309 MET aug 96