RESTRUCTURING OF JUDICIARY IN BOSNIA AWAITS U.N. FUNDING

( Editorial: --> 3142 ) SARAJEVO, Feb 19 (Hina) - The United Nations Mission in Bosnia- Herzegovina has informed the UN headquarters in New York of the need to restructure the judiciary in that country. The UN's Sarajevo spokesman Alexander Ivanko said on Thursday that a UN commission will soon approve funding for the restructuring of the judiciary in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mission head Elizabeth Rehn recently said there was no purpose in having professional police if its work would not be followed up by a similar judiciary. And the Ombudsman of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Vera Jovanovic, warned that there were reasons for serious doubts about the independence of the judiciary. She asserted that most judges in the Muslim-Croat Federation were dependent on cantonal justice ministries who placed them in their posts, resulting in most leading people in the courts being candidates of governing parties. (Hina) mm mb/as 191433 MET feb 98