1.   The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues.

2.   However, it made no mention of the nine-member electoral commission tasked with organising the polls which reportedly resigned last week.

3.   A spokesman for the United Nations, which administers the region and which will be organising the polls there, welcomed the news Wednesday.

4.   Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic hinted Monday that she could withdraw a pledge to cooperate with the agency that is to organise local polls slated for late November.

5.   David Foley, a spokesman for the Oragnisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which organised the polls, welcomed the approval of the government.

6.   The military junta organised the polls but ignored the verdict.

7.   The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is organising the polls, is due to ratify the lists next week.

8.   The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is to organise the polls by mid-September, will announce later this month if the polls can go ahead.

9.   The Palestinians, who have pledged legislative elections early next year, say they cannot organise their polls under such travel constraints.