OSCE OFFICIAL RELIEVED OF HIS DUTY FOR TAKING DOWN CROAT FLAG

MOSTAR, Nov 1 (Hina) - The Mostar-based local office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) said Friday that an OSCE mission member would be relieved of duty in Mostar after he, being drunk, had taken down a Croatian flag from a building where a coffee-house is housed, in western part of Mostar, last Wednesday (Oct. 30). He would have to leave the Mostar office immediately. The OSCE sincerely apologized for the incident, and said the flag would be returned to the coffee-house owner, according to the statement. The Mostar OSCE local office's head Wolfgang Odendah would sent a letter of apology to the mayor of Mostar Ivan Prskalo, and local Bosnian Croat officials, the statement said. (hina) jn mš 011432 MET nov 96