ZAGREB, March 16 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of Representatives on Friday ended its discussion on the implementation of the Dayton Agreement, while an inter-party parliamentary commission failed to reach an agreement on
joint conclusions. The chief difference between moved conclusions by opposition MPs (Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ) and the Foreign Policy Committee mostly seated by ruling parties, is in that the HDZ supports decisions by the Croat National Assembly in Bosnia-Herzegovina which has proclaimed self-rule, while ruling parties have decried this and calling it an entrance into conflicts with the international community. Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said the international community will not accept blackmail and called on Croat parties comprising the Croat National Assembly to stop political acts because a more rational conduct would make it possible for them to become partners
ZAGREB, March 16 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of
Representatives on Friday ended its discussion on the
implementation of the Dayton Agreement, while an inter-party
parliamentary commission failed to reach an agreement on joint
conclusions.
The chief difference between moved conclusions by opposition MPs
(Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ) and the Foreign Policy Committee
mostly seated by ruling parties, is in that the HDZ supports
decisions by the Croat National Assembly in Bosnia-Herzegovina
which has proclaimed self-rule, while ruling parties have decried
this and calling it an entrance into conflicts with the
international community.
Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said the international community
will not accept blackmail and called on Croat parties comprising
the Croat National Assembly to stop political acts because a more
rational conduct would make it possible for them to become partners
in regulating relations within Bosnia.
Parliament speaker Zlatko Tomcic announced the possibility of
continuing inter-party negotiations to reach a consensus on joint
conclusions.
The Committee suggested eight conclusions, including that the
Lower House advocated a stable and democratic Bosnia in which three
constitutive peoples would increasingly take over responsibility
for the fate of their state, and that it "opposed any unilateral
changes to Dayton".
The conclusions also state that the Lower House "expresses
disagreement and regret about the proclamation of the Croat self-
rule in Bosnia, regret for the decision of the international
community on temporary electoral regulations which jeopardise the
equality of the Croat people in Bosnia, and concern that Republika
Srpska in Bosnia was developing as an ethnically clean quazi-state
in which neither Croats nor Bosniaks can return".
Croatia, as a signatory to the Dayton Agreement, "should insist
that all signatories consistently implement Dayton and its
provisions on the equality of Croats, Bosniaks and Serbs as
constitutive peoples of the sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina".
The HDZ denounced representatives of the international community
for having "unilaterally violated the Dayton Agreement and the
Bosnian Constitution" and made questionable the sovereignty and
constitutive quality of the Croat people.
The HDZ suggested that the current Croatian government authority
has proven to be completely unprepared to prevent the
discriminatory conduct towards Croats in Bosnia, and bears
responsibility for their unbearable position.
This biggest opposition party also suggested that the Lower House
"fully support the legally and legitimately elected
representatives of the Croat people in Bosnia in making decisions
aimed at protecting the rights of Croats".
The House of Representatives will next week vote on both motions,
should a consensus on a joint document fail to be reached in the
meantime.
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