Ohio State professor selected as Bosnia electionsupervisor

OHIO STATE PROFESSOR SELECTED AS BOSNIA ELECTION SUPERVISOR

     COLUMBUS -- An Ohio State University professor has been
selected to serve as an election supervisor for the Sept. 13-14
municipal elections in Bosnia.

     Okey Onyejekwe (O-kay On-yeh-JEK-way), director of the
Center for African Studies, will be part of an international
effort to monitor the first municipal elections in Bosnia since
the Dayton Peace Accord of November 1995.

     The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE), which is organizing the elections, and the U.S. State
Department selected Onyejekwe for the position after a seven-
month screening process.  He will be in Bosnia from Sept. 4-21.

     The municipal elections originally were scheduled to
coincide with national elections last September, but have been
postponed several times to allow planners more time to organize
refugee registration and international monitoring.

     Nearly 20,000 candidates for municipal office are expected
to participate in the elections.

     Onyejekwe