OSCE SATISFIED WITH COURSE OF BH ELECTIONS

SARAJEVO, Sept 15 (Hina) - Deputy president of the Provisional Election Commission in Bosnia-Herzegovina Kenneth Schott on Sunday said that he was satisfied with the course of elections. There was very little violence at yesterday's elections and only two larger incidents, a hand grenade thrown at the house of a member of the local election commission in Bugojno, about 75 kilometres west of Sarajevo, and an attack on the leader of the Joint List of BH Zlatko Lugumdzija in Sarajevo. "We condemn the violence", Schott said and added that the Election Appellate Commission had been informed about it. He also said that the counting of votes continued in Republika Srpska, which had this morning been prohibited by Serbs, even though it was under exclusive authority of the Provisional Election Commission to do so. We had given instructions for the continuation of the counting of ballots, which had been followed through in most electoral centres, Shott said. (hina) ha lm 151908 MET sep 96