MOSTAR, Nov 21 (Hina) - The personnel of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is to decrease significantly from the beginning of 1997, in order to curb spending, director of the Mostar regional OSCE Office,
General Wolfgang Odendahl, told reporters in Mostar on Thursday. During the September elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the number of persons working at OSCE amounted to 2,600, and from next January, about 150 would remain, as had been planned, he said.
MOSTAR, Nov 21 (Hina) - The personnel of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is to decrease
significantly from the beginning of 1997, in order to curb
spending, director of the Mostar regional OSCE Office, General
Wolfgang Odendahl, told reporters in Mostar on Thursday.
During the September elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the
number of persons working at OSCE amounted to 2,600, and from next
January, about 150 would remain, as had been planned, he said. #L#
However, on the eve of municipal elections in Bosnia which are
planned between May and July 1997, their numbers would increase,
Odendahl said, adding that on that occasion, the number of persons
engaged would amount to more than during the September elections.
(hina) lm jn
211423 MET nov 96