OSCE OFFICIALS TALK WITH MOSTAR MAYOR

MOSTAR, March 21 (Hina) - Mostar Mayor, Ivan Prskalo, on Friday received the head of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Robert Frowick, for talks on problems and a crisis in that southern Bosnian town. After the talks, Prskalo said that today's meeting instilled optimism in him, as solutions of problems and a possibility of holding elections in Mostar would be taken more seriously into consideration in future. Frowick said that he and Prskalo had exchanged views on problems in Mostar. Asked by a reporter whether elections would be held also in Mostar in September, Frowick replied that he could not say it at the moment and that he should see how events would develop in the town. A spokesman for OSCE, David Foley, accompanying Frowick on the tour to Mostar, said that the OSCE had been following the situation in Mostar with concern and disappointment, since February 10 incidents. Frowick is expected to meet Herzegovina-Neretva Canton Head, Fatima Leho and UNHCR officials in Mostar. (hina) jn mš 211930 MET mar 97