GARROD FAVOURABLY EVALUATES LONDON CONFERENCE

MOSTAR, Dec 6 (Hina) - The European Union special envoy to Mostar, Martin Garrod, on Friday favourably evaluated the conclusions of the two-day London conference on Bosnia-Herzegovina, particularly those relating to Mostar. Garrod announced at a press conference that the international community's high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina planned to open an office in Mostar after Garrod's mission ends later this month. Speaking of the situation in the town, Garrod cited four cases of stoning of vehicles along a boulevard which divides the town into Croat and Moslem halves, five apartment evictions and five eviction threats. He described the incidents as criminal. Garrod welcomed statements by Mostar mayor Ivan Prskalo in which he opposed forcible evictions. The international police chief in the Mostar area, Alva Emersson, said that the International Police Task Force (IPTF) would continue to cooperate with police forces on both sides of the town in efforts to find and arrest people responsible for evictions and the stoning. Commenting on a recent incident which happened near Capljina, when truck driver Ivan Puljic attempted to join a convoy of vehicles among which were those of Bosnian co-presidents Alija Izetbegovic and Kresimir Zubak and OSCE mission chief Robert Frowick, IPTF official Juan Carretero said that the truck driver had not realized that it was an official convoy. (hina) vm jn 061819 MET dec 96