BOSNIAN HDZ: PETRITSCH IS SPOKESMAN FOR KARADZIC AND MLADIC

MOSTAR, March 22 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia- Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) on Friday expressed disagreement with negotiations on constitutional changes in the country. The party especially attacked High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch who presides over the meetings of political leaders from the Croat- Muslim federation and the Bosnian Serb entity. #L# One of HDZ's negotiators, Niko Lozancic, accused Petritsch at today's news conference of advocating Serb ideas of maintaining Republika Srpska at any cost, with minimum of corrections. Lozancic said Petritsch wanted to "preserve Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic's project", alluding to Republika Srpska. This week's negotiations with Petritsch ended on Friday morning, and will continue on Monday. During more than 100 hours of meetings, he said, the two sides had not harmonised a single issue. He added that the talks were being conducted in such a way as to "drive the negotiators crazy". HDZ president Ante Jelavic, who is not taking part in the negotiations, told reporters that the talks were going in an "unacceptable direction". The constitutional changes as advocated by Petritsch "could be misused to divide Bosnia into two parts -- Republika Srpska as a majority Serb entity, and the Bosnian federation as a majority Bosniak entity," Jelavic said. (hina) lml