BH ELECTIONS TO BE SUPERVISED BY 980 INTERNATIONAL MONITORS

SARAJEVO, Sept 9 (Hina) - Coordinator of the international monitors who should supervise the forthcoming Bosnian elections, Dutch Interior Minister Edward van Thijn, on Monday dismissed the possibility that he might resign. He said that, within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, there was full accord that the final election results should be announced only after international monitors evaluated their regularity. Van Thijn told a press conference in Sarajevo that the first report on the elections would be announced 48 hours after the voting. "I will announce the final opinion on the regularity of the voting 24 hours after the results of the elections are submitted to me, and after that, Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti will announce whether the elections are valid or not and publicly state their results", van Thijn said. He warned that the counting of votes would take days, mainly due to many logistic problems. The regularity of the Bosnian 14 September elections would be supervised by 980 international monitors, including 200 parliamentary representatives from different countries, van Thijn said, adding that they would inspect voting posts deployed in some 500 mobile teams. (hina) ha jn 091557 MET sep 96