ZAGREB, April 18 (Hina) - Commenting the latest developments in relation to Hercegovacka Banka, representatives of Croatia's parliamentary parties asserted that the problems in Bosnia-Herzegovina could not be solved by use of force,
but only through a political dialogue. Describing the SFOR troops' raid on the bank's administration building as yet another wrong move of the international community, Zdravko Tomac of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said the use of force could only produce a counter-effect. "If there are criminal acts, then individuals should be investigated and punished. It must not happen that the entire Croat people in Bosnia is punished," said Tomac, the head of the Croatian parliamentary foreign affairs committee, which is on an official tour in Sweden. Tomac told Hina on the phone that he and other Croatian MPs in the committee's delegation informed the Swedish pa
ZAGREB, April 18 (Hina) - Commenting the latest developments in
relation to Hercegovacka Banka, representatives of Croatia's
parliamentary parties asserted that the problems in Bosnia-
Herzegovina could not be solved by use of force, but only through a
political dialogue.
Describing the SFOR troops' raid on the bank's administration
building as yet another wrong move of the international community,
Zdravko Tomac of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said the use of
force could only produce a counter-effect.
"If there are criminal acts, then individuals should be
investigated and punished. It must not happen that the entire Croat
people in Bosnia is punished," said Tomac, the head of the Croatian
parliamentary foreign affairs committee, which is on an official
tour in Sweden.
Tomac told Hina on the phone that he and other Croatian MPs in the
committee's delegation informed the Swedish parliament about the
Croatian Sabor's stands on the situation in Bosnia.
He added that "in Sweden they have not received arguments which
might prove that the international community's moves are the right
path for the exit from the Bosnian crisis."
He reminded that the Croatian parliament (Sabor) had recently
adopted conclusions which opposed the policy of the leadership of a
major Bosnian Croat party - HDZ BiH - given that "the international
community responds to one-sided moves, in kind and even more
intensely."
Tomac sees the settlement of the crisis in the re-change of the
electoral rules and in the return of Croat representatives to the
institutions in the Bosnian Federation.
"Bosnian Croat must realise they cannot go against the
international community, which must correct its mistakes, on the
other hand," Tomac said on the phone.
A spokesman for the Croatian People's Party (HNS), Boris
Blazekovic, and the President of the Liberal Party (LS), Zlatko
Kramaric, also criticised the use of force for the settlement of
political problems. Kramaric added that problems could neither be
solved by obstruction.
Ante Djapic, the leader of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP),
labelled the latest moves of the High Representative Wolfgang
Petritsch and NATO-led Stabilisation Force as "the inappropriate
conduct which has no connection with democratic customs." For
Djapic, this is only the demonstration of force and the plundering
of the Croat money.
Officials of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) did not want to
comment on the Mostar event this evening, explaining that the
party's presidency would hold a session tomorrow and express its
stand.
In the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, members of the Office of
the High Representative (OHR) and the Stabilisation Force raided
the Hercegovacka Banka's administration building in Mostar and
blew up the bank's safety vault, taking from it money and other
documentation which were not confiscated in an April 6 operation
when the bank was blocked and when Petritsch appointed the
emergency administration over this financial institution.
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