CARDINAL: THIRD ENTITY IS NOT SOLUTION FOR BOSNIAN CROATS

SARAJEVO, April 19 (Hina) - Establishing a third entity in Bosnia- Herzegovina is not the solution to the situation in the country, however, the country's current organisation does Bosnian Croats an injustice because it reduces them to a minority, Bosnia's Archbishop, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, said. #L# In an interview with Saturday's issue of Sarajevo's Oslobodjenje daily, Puljic said his stand about this issue was the same as two years ago, when he had spoken at a convention of the Croatian National Assembly in Novi Travnik, at which attempts were made to declare Croat self-government. "This country should be organised in such a way that would enable all three peoples and every citizen to be truly equal throughout its territory," Puljic said, adding some more time would have to pass before the whole truth about the Novi Travnik convention came to light. He said that a lot of foul dealings had been going on at the time, and added that some people "are still untouchable", but he would not speak about them saying courts should deal with them. Commenting on claims by Croatian Democratic Union leader Ivo Sanader's claims that the return of Bosnia's Croatian Democratic Union to power had changed the status of Croats in the country, Cardinal Puljic said what mattered was not which party was in power but whether the Croat people in Bosnia-Herzegovina could exercise their right to be different and yet contribute to building the country. (hina) rml