MOSTAR, Jan 2 (Hina) - The Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia on Wednesday neither confirmed nor denied allegations in Sarajevo's print media to the effect that the OHR had drawn up a document suggesting the Bosnian
Serb entity's parliament set up a commission for the protection of vital national interests instead of the House of Nations. The media allege the document was drafted ahead of constitutional changes aimed at making the three Bosnian peoples (Croats, Muslims, Serbs) constituent throughout the country's territory. OHR spokesman Oleg Milisic told Hina on the phone today it was too early to say if the Bosnian Serb parliament would establish the commission instead of the House of Nations. The OHR advocates solutions which will ensure equal rights for the three peoples throughout Bosnian territory, he said. Bosnia's other entity, the Croat-Muslim federation, has a bic
MOSTAR, Jan 2 (Hina) - The Office of the High Representative (OHR)
in Bosnia on Wednesday neither confirmed nor denied allegations in
Sarajevo's print media to the effect that the OHR had drawn up a
document suggesting the Bosnian Serb entity's parliament set up a
commission for the protection of vital national interests instead
of the House of Nations.
The media allege the document was drafted ahead of constitutional
changes aimed at making the three Bosnian peoples (Croats, Muslims,
Serbs) constituent throughout the country's territory.
OHR spokesman Oleg Milisic told Hina on the phone today it was too
early to say if the Bosnian Serb parliament would establish the
commission instead of the House of Nations. The OHR advocates
solutions which will ensure equal rights for the three peoples
throughout Bosnian territory, he said.
Bosnia's other entity, the Croat-Muslim federation, has a
bicameral parliament.
In his New Year's message, High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch
described the Bosnian Constitutional Court's decision to make
Serbs, Muslims, and Croats constituent throughout Bosnia's
territory as historic and its implementation the biggest test of
2002.
Petritsch added, however, that certain structural solutions in the
two entities need not be the same, thus implying that the Republic
of Srpska might not have a bicameral parliament.
According to the weekly Slobodna Bosna, if the Serb entity were to
retain the one-house parliament, Bosnia's Croatian Democratic
Union party would have its strongest argument in demanding a third
entity, which the weekly says will open a new and uncertain period
of political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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