FIRST ELECTION RESULTS TO BE PUBLICIZED SUNDAY EVENING

SARAJEVO, 15 Sept (Hina) - Most polling places in Bosnia- Herzegovina were closed around 10 p.m. last night. The voting at the polling which were not closed at 7 p.m. had to be extended because of some minor problems during the day, said the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) mission for elections, Jeff Fisher. #L# A smaller number of poling places were still opened after 7 p.m. in Bihac, Mostar, Sarajevo and Tuzla. On Sunday morning, the counting of votes would start at some 140 locations intended for that purpose, Fisher said, adding that the first results could be expected Sunday evening at the earliest or Monday morning. According to a U.N. source, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had also taken part in the elections, UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said. Karadzic was reported to have voted at a polling station in Pale. According to information presented by the head of the Provisional Election Commission, Robert Frowick, some 60-70% of voters took part in the elections. Some 20,000 voters, currently living in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, voted in Republika Srpska, while some 4,000 voters from Republika Srpska voted on the Federation territory. A delegation of U.S. Congress and government members who were supervising the elections stated in Sarajevo last night that the voting had been carried out without major irregularities. 'We did not notice anything that would disqualify the election process', the head of the U.S. delegation Richard Holbrooke told a press conference. Commenting on a request by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) that the elections in Republika Srpska be declared invalid, Holbrooke said the problem had to be solved through the OSCE mission. (hina) rm mm 151050 MET sep 96