STATEMENT BY OSCE OFFICE FOR B-H ELECTIONS

ZAGREB, 10 August (Hina) - Between 29 July and 8 August 136,553 citizens of B-H presently accomodated in Croatia registered at 78 regstration posts in this country to vote at the forthcoming B-H elections, reported the OSCE ofice for BH elections in Zagreb Saturday. After he had personally checked technical standards and quality of the registration process, the OSCE representative Tobias Wernle commended high organizational capacity of the Government Office for Refugees and DPs, which helped the National Committee carry out the registration in a very short time. A temporary elections committee for B-H elections has recently decided that B-H voters presently located outside B-H will go to the polling stations at their respective residences between 28 August and 3 September 1996. In due course, the Croatian Government will inform B-H voters when voting will be held on its soil. The countries with postal ballot will have a week to organize voting. Given very good organizational abilities of the National Coordination Committee, voting at polling stations all over Croatia will be probably held on two days, says a communiqué by the OSCE office. mr (Hina) 102115 MET aug 96