2,400,000 BOSNIANS TURNED UP AT THE POLLS - OSCE

SARAJEVO, Sept 27 (Hina) - The number of voters who turned up at the September 14 election in Bosnia-Herzegovina is 2,400,000, OSCE chief of mission Robert Frowick said on Friday in a statement. #L# Discussing various speculations regarding turnout, Frowick said OSCE's preliminary estimate, based on the 1991 electoral rolls and statistics of war casualties, was that about 3,250,000 million voters would turn up at the polls. However, the OSCE Mission later discarded this figure in favour of the UN's estimate of a turnout of 2,900,000 voters. "The OSCE Mission should not have used this figure because it makes it seem that over 600 thousand people have gone missing since 1991, which cannot be true," said Frowick. He added that OSCE assumed full responsibility for any errors arising out of such faulty estimates. The OSCE mission has been widely censured for incompetence in conducting the election process in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Among the most critical was the International Crisis Group, a well-known non- government organisation. (hina) as 271800 MET sep 96