ELECTIONS COULD BE COMPROMIZED ONLY BY NEW CONFLICTS - FROWICK

SARAJEVO, Aug 2 (Hina) - Head of the Mission of the Organization for security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Robert Frowick on Friday said that there was still some possibility of excluding the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) from the electoral process if it was established that its representatives were violating the Dayton accords concerning the complete removal of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic from public and political life. #L# He said that it was certain that the elections in Bosnia would take place on 14 September, adding that the final deadline had been set in Dayton and had to be respected. Holding of the elections could only be compromised by new conflicts, Frowick told a news conference in Sarajevo. The last session of the Federation Forum which had taken place in Sarajevo two days ago, had shown possibilities of resolving the rest of problems in the Bosnian Federation, he said. Frowick confirmed that some 150,000 Bosnian refugees who were living abroad had announced to vote in the elections, and some 600,000 refugees with the right to vote had expressed interest for the possibilities and conditions of voting. OSCE representatives visited 4,300 locations where polling stations would be set up. It had been estimated that some of these locations were very dangerous, so the final number of polling stations would be lessened to 4,000, Frowick said. Some 1,300 international monitors will arrive in Bosnia- Herzegovina three weeks before the beginning of elections. (hina) lm 021424 MET aug 96