COOK AND KINKEL CONDEMN BOSNIAN CROAT LEADERS' DECISION TO BOYCOTT ELE

DECISION TO BOYCOTT ELE $ CTION LONDON, Sept 10 (Hina) - British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel strongly condemned a decision of the Bosnian Croat leadership to boycott the impending Bosnian municipal election scheduled for 13 and 14 September at a Tuesday meeting in Hamburg, the British Foreign Office said in a statement on Wednesday, adding they appealed to Bosnian Croat leaders to alter their decision. Cook and Kinkel denoted the Bosnian municipal election as a key link in the peace process. They agreed the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had worked unbiased and hard in the attempt to schedule a free and fair election. Cook and Kinkel called on Bosnian Croat leaders to alter their decision, pointing out this was the opinion of the whole international community. The British Foreign Secretary stressed it would not be possible to build a democratic, multi-ethnic Bosnia-Herzegovina if one ethnic community refused to take part in the election. (hina) ha jn 101933 MET sep 97