11.   The UN mission which has administered Eastern Slavonia since January last year will be organising the polls.

12.   The second envisaged the CTP itself organising polls within two months to elect an interim government and president for a two-year period.

13.   The statement made no mention of the nine-member electoral commission tasked with organising the polls which reportedly resigned last week.

14.   The United Nations, which runs Eastern Slavonia, will organise the polls there.

15.   They discussed among other issues the difficulty of organising polls at all levels when voters cannot move freely owing to Israeli travel restrictions.

16.   This means the pullout must begin in September which is also the month most often cited as the best time to organise the polls.

17.   Last October the OSCE cancelled a second date in November after the Bosnian Serbs refused to invite the OSCE to organise the poll.

18.   Neither did he refer to logistical problems attributable to the haste with which the regime decided to organise the poll under pressure from the international community to restore democracy.

19.   Once polling stations close on Thursday, the votes will be taken to the foreign ministry in Ankara and delivered to the OSCE which is organising the polls.

20.   On Friday, the OSCE, which was responsible for organising the polls, rejected the advice of its legal counsellors to have a recount.