ZAGREB, April 7 (Hina) - A Deputy Speaker of the Croatian parliament, Zdravko Tomac, was quoted by the Croatian Television on Friday evening as saying that both Bosnian Croats and the international community were taking steps which
"are not prudent."
ZAGREB, April 7 (Hina) - A Deputy Speaker of the Croatian
parliament, Zdravko Tomac, was quoted by the Croatian Television on
Friday evening as saying that both Bosnian Croats and the
international community were taking steps which "are not prudent."
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"I hold that first of all it was not a wise decision that Croats
provoke the international community by their one-sided actions,
and it was also not a wise decision of the international community
to respond in kind and aggravate the situation," Tomac said in a
late news programme.
On Friday three policemen, two civilians and 18 SFOR (NATO-led
Stabilisation Force) members suffered injuries in the riots in the
southern Bosnian city of Mostar when angry citizens staged rallies
to protest against the High representative's decision to appoint
the transitional administration in the Hercegovacka Banka, seen by
foreign diplomats in Bosnia-Herzegovina as the financial backbone
of the Croat self-rule which the international community labels as
the self-styled parallel authorities and which the Croat National
Assembly (led by the HDZ BiH political party) set up in some Bosnian
areas. High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch appointed Toby
Robinson as the temporary administrator and ordered the check-ups
of operations of that bank, which is under suspicion of having
secret accounts of the HDZ BiH party (the Croatian Democratic Union
of Bosnia-Herzegovina).
?omac, who is the head of the Sabor foreign affairs committee, said
he was not surprised by the developments but he was concerned over
the latest events, and stressed that for some time Zagreb had been
calling on all the parties in concern in Bosnia to start
negotiations and abandon one-sided actions.
"We cannot enter the conflict with the international community and
make one-sided moves," Tomac reiterated.
He announced that he and Sabor Speaker Zlatko Tomcic would hand over
the Croatian parliament's conclusions to ambassadors of European
Union and UN Security Council member-states in Zagreb on Tuesday.
According to the conclusions, all the parties in concern should try
find a compromise and an exit from the situation, Tomac added.
Commenting on the crisis around HVO barracks in Bosnia caused by the
conflict between those who were against new Croat official and, on
the other hand, officers and soldiers loyal to the newly-appointed
Croat representatives in Bosnia and the Croat-Moslem Federation,
Tomac said Croatia at present was trying, in cooperation with the
international community, to find an exit from the situation.
Zagreb can and must call on all to defuse the situation, he said
asserting that the exit from the problems would be in changes in the
electoral rules, amendments to the constitutions of Bosnia's two
entities and the enforcement of the Bosnia's Constitutional
Court's ruling on all the three peoples (Croats, Serbs and Moslems
or Bosniaks) being constituent throughout the country.
There is no Bosnia without the equality of Serbs, Croats and
Bosniaks on the entire territory, he emphasised.
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