The assembly, held under the motto "Changing the Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina into a European Bosnia-Herzegovina," was attended by representatives of Bosnian Croat opposition parties, displaced persons' and cultural associations, Catholic dignitaries, and Croatian Ambassador to Bosnia Josip Vrbosic.
The participants endorsed HNV president friar Luka Markesic's positions that Bosnia was still the victim of a policy of division and destruction. He said the Dayton peace agreement did end the war in Bosnia in 1995 but not the policy which had caused it, adding there would be no lasting and just peace in either Bosnia or the entire Balkans as long as that policy was in force. He did not name the parties or individuals he thought waged that policy.
Markesic suggested the HNV should take resolute action to change Bosnia from the Dayton, two-entity state into a federation based on regions or cantons.
The first HNV president, Ivo Komsic, the situation could not be changed without the participation of those which imposed Bosnia's Dayton structure.
The participants in the assembly adopted conclusions in which they request that Bosnia's new constitution ensure standards which will preserve the equality of Croats, Muslims and Serbs, create a uniform economic system, apply European standards in culture and education, and establish friendly relations between the Church and the state.