TOMAC ANNOUNCES VISIT OF CROATIA'S DELEGATION TO BOSNIA

MOSTAR, Jan 18 (Hina) - Croatia's multiparty delegation will soon visit Sarajevo and Mostar and hold meetings with international representatives and ethnic Croat officials to gain a comprehensive insight into problems Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina are faced with, Zdravko Tomac was quoted by the Mostar-based Croat radio station 'Herzeg-Bosnia' as saying on Thursday. Tomac, the head of Croatia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, described Bosnian Croats' position as dramatically difficult, and voiced fear that Bosnian Croats, one of the three constituent peoples in that country, might become a national minority. According to Tomac, the former policy in Bosnia-Herzegovina has completely failed, and therefore a new model is necessary to ensure the equality of all the three peoples - Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks (Moslems) - on the entire territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The well-known Croatian politician also advocated the establishment of a Council (House) of Peoples in the Bosnian Serb entity like the existent parliamentary house in the Bosnian Croat- Moslem Federation. In this context, he cautioned that the Croats' position in Bosnia- Herzegovina would not be improved with continued insistence on the former policy of special relations between Croatia and the Croat- Moslem entity and between Yugoslavia and the Republic of Srpska. "Croatia must not let the Republic of Srpska be more and more like a (sovereign) state which will eventually join some united Serb lands, as this may help the recurrence of greater Serb nationalism for ten years which will aspire to expansion," Tomac explained. He also criticised the international community for showing a lack of interest in the return of Croats and Moslems to Bosnian Posavina (the right side of the valley of the Sava) and Banja Luka (north- western Bosnia). He, however, admitted that thus far, Zagreb had nor been very interested in those refuge returns either and, in his mind, this must be changed. (hina) ms