MESIC COMMENDS DOCUMENT ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES IN BOSNIA

TIRANA, March 28 (Hina) - The document on constitutional changes in Bosnia guarantees the equality of all three peoples and is a big step forward in the organisation of the country, Croatian President Stipe Mesic said in Tirana on Thursday. It transparently shows that the entities are not states but that Bosnia is an integral state, he added. #L# The fact that the decision of the Constitutional Court proclaiming the equality of all three peoples throughout Bosnian territory is being implemented is an improvement in itself, Mesic said. The document can be amended but it is the "maximum of what could have been achieved now," he said, adding that now everything depended on the three peoples. The document was drawn up by the international community's High Representative in Bosnia, Wolfgang Petritsch. After month-long negotiations, it was signed on Wednesday evening by three parties from the ruling Bosnian coalition - the Social Democratic Party, the Party for BH, and the New Croatian Initiative. As for the new Serbia-Montenegro relations, the Croatian head of state said the agreement regulating them was good for both republics, as well as for Croatia and the neighbourhood. "Many in the Croatian public were afraid of a new association, but now we can see Yugoslavia is no more. That process is over and this facilitates our cooperation in Serbia," Mesic said in Tirana, where he is attending the Fifth South East Europe Co-operation Process (SEECP) Summit. (hina) ha