$ ZIC SARAJEVO, Aug 13 (Hina) - If the September elections are held under the conditions currently prevailing on the ground, they will be neither fair nor democratic, Party for Bosnia leader Haris Silajdzic told a Sarajevo press
conference on Tuesday. "If elections are held under the present conditions, they will not fulfill the main goal of the Dayton Agreement - to preserve Bosnia-Herzegovina as a state," Silajdzic said. The Party for Bosnia and another eight Opposition parties had announced earlier they would probably boycott the election if nothing was done to prevent the disintegration of Bosnia.
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SARAJEVO, Aug 13 (Hina) - If the September elections are held under
the conditions currently prevailing on the ground, they will be
neither fair nor democratic, Party for Bosnia leader Haris
Silajdzic told a Sarajevo press conference on Tuesday.
"If elections are held under the present conditions, they will
not fulfill the main goal of the Dayton Agreement - to preserve
Bosnia-Herzegovina as a state," Silajdzic said.
The Party for Bosnia and another eight Opposition parties had
announced earlier they would probably boycott the election if
nothing was done to prevent the disintegration of Bosnia. #L#
Bosnian Serb leaders were already saying they would take steps
to secede from Bosnia-Herzegovina after the election, Silajdzic
said. The attempts by 'Republika srpska' authorities to force
refugee to vote in their new place of residence also supported this
prognosis, he said.
He accused the OSCE (Organisation for European Security and
Cooperation) of tolerating this violation of election rules,
thereby legalising the results of ethnic cleansing.
"To hold elections under the present conditions would be the
ultimate triumph of Karadzic and his SDS," Silajdzic said.
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