FIRST ELECTION RESULTS TO BE PUBLICIZED ON 17 SEPT

SARAJEVO, 2 Sept (Hina) - At the last round of talks with the candidates for the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, international peace coordinator Carl Bildt received guarantees that all candidates would fully cooperate in the establishment of joint institutions of the Bosnian state after the 14 September elections, Bildt's spokesman Colum Murphy told a press conference in Sarajevo Monday. Murphy announced that all three members of the new Bosnian Presidency should appear at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in the second half of September. The existing bodies of authority would continue to function until new authorities were established after the elections. The first meeting of 42 newly-elected parliament members could be expected seven days after election results were confirmed, Murphy said. Agota Cuperman, spokesperson for the mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Monday stated that the first election results could be expected on 17 September. Bosnian refugees who were currently living in Dubrovnik would also take part in the elections on 14 September. The elections for the Bosnian refugees in Dubrovnik would be repeated since the polling station in Dubrovnik received wrong ballots. The OSCE mission estimated that 45% of voters had submitted their ballots in person while the rest of the voters had sent them by mail. According to Cuperman, 1,159 international monitors who would monitor the elections, arrived in Bosnia today. Pre-election rallies in Bosnia were proceeding without serious problems and there had been no incidents, Cuperman said. The head of the OSCE mission, Robert Frowick, warned one of the Bosnian Serb leaders, Momcilo Krajisnik, that he could not tolerate election placards with Karadzic's picture on them at pre- election rallies of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS). Karadzic's pictures were a regular embellishment at several large SDS election rallies recently. Krajisnik, Biljana Plavsic and Aleksa Buha who were co-signatories to an agreement on Karadzic's removal from political and public life, spoke at those rallies, Frowick said. Municipal elections in Bosnia would probably be held in November, spokesman Murphy said. OSCE officials had still not determined criteria for the registration of voters at municipal elections, but it was certain that Form P-2 would not be used at municipal elections. (hina) rm jn 021422 MET sep 96