SARAJEVO, 14 Sept (Hina) - The elections in Bosnia are proceeding rather peacefully, with some minor incidents, IFOR spokesman Bratt Boudreau told a news conference in Sarajevo Saturday. Until 3 p.m. today, the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has not publicized information on the voter turnout. UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said that this morning's turnout was moderate and that the number of voters who turned out at the polling stations in the afternoon was larger.
SARAJEVO, 14 Sept (Hina) - The elections in Bosnia are proceeding
rather peacefully, with some minor incidents, IFOR spokesman Bratt
Boudreau told a news conference in Sarajevo Saturday. Until 3 p.m.
today, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) has not publicized information on the voter turnout.
UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said that this morning's turnout was
moderate and that the number of voters who turned out at the
polling stations in the afternoon was larger. #L#
Until 2:30 p.m., 142 buses with voters had crossed the inter-
entity boundary, heading mainly in the direction of Republika
Srpska. Another 49 buses were heading in the direction of Orasje,
Ivanko said, adding that some 200 buses had already crossed the
inter-entity border.
IFOR chief commander, Admiral Joseph Lopez and IFOR ground
force commander, General Michael Walker, said they were satisfied
because the elections were proceeding without major incidents.
'We were very concerned about possible incidents, but it seems
that some minor misunderstandings which occurred are not so
important', Admiral Lopez told a group of journalists in the NATO
Rapid Reaction Force headquarters in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza.
Around 3 p.m., eight polling places were re-opened in the
Sarajevo municipality of Novi Grad. The voting in this municipality
was temporarily halted because of problems in the identification of
voters on electoral registers.
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