BOSNIAN PARLIAMENT URGES OSCE TO TAKE A STAND ON ELECTIONS

SARAJEVO, Aug 27 (Hina) - The parliament of the Republic of Bosnia- Herzegovina held an extraordinary session in Sarajevo on Tuesday and demanded that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission take a stand on the situation in the country with regard to upcoming general elections. The parliament would reconvene after the OSCE presented its views on the matter to determine its stance on the conduct of elections scheduled for September 14. Deputies stressed that fair and democratic elections were impossible without ensuring full freedom of movement, free access to the media and the return of refugees to their homes. It was said that Form P-2, which allows refugees to vote in places other than their pre-war homes, would legalize the results of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The session was attended by Michael Steiner, a deputy to the international community's high representative for Bosnia- Herzegovina Carl Bildt, who said that the OSCE had to respond to manipulations with voter registration. Steiner supported a delay of municipal elections but warned that elections at other levels were a necessity so that joint government institutions could be established. Those institutions were necessary to prevent those who wanted the process of disintegration of the country to continue, he added. (hina) vm jn 271531 MET aug 96