OSIJEK, 8 Feb (Hina) - Elections in the area under the U.N. Transitional Administration (UNTAES) would not be held until all citizens had received Croatian documents. That referred to people who lived in the area in 1991, as well as
to refugees who arrived in the area after 1991, U.N. Transitional Administrator Jacques Klein told local Serb television in Beli Manastir last night.
OSIJEK, 8 Feb (Hina) - Elections in the area under the U.N.
Transitional Administration (UNTAES) would not be held until all
citizens had received Croatian documents. That referred to people
who lived in the area in 1991, as well as to refugees who arrived
in the area after 1991, U.N. Transitional Administrator Jacques
Klein told local Serb television in Beli Manastir last night. #L#
The issuing of documents was being hampered by administrative
slowness of the Croatian side and the unwillingness of the local
Serb leadership to cooperate in securing offices for the issuing of
documents, Klein said.
He stressed that elections could not be considered free and
fair if people in the area had not received their documents and
registered themselves electorally.
Klein also said that 16 March was not the final date of the
elections, adding the UNTAES would decide when the elections would
be held on the basis of the process of issuing documents to the
people living in the area.
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