CRO. FOREIGN MINISTER APPLAUDS CROAT COORDINATION OF BOSNIA

ZAGREB, April 26 (Hina) - Croatia expects that in the future, political weight in Bosnia will shift to options which offer prospects of the Croat people's equality and which agree with others on political initiatives, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said on Thursday. Talking to the press after meeting a delegation of the Croat Coordination of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Picula added Croatia expected political weight would shift to options which did not make one-sided steps and lead Croats into conflict with Bosnia's other two peoples.#L# "Croatia will certainly support those political options in BH which in their content resemble our policy towards that country," said Picula after the meeting, which Prime Minister Ivica Racan presided on the Croatian side. Picula assessed the appearance of the Croat Coordination of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the political scene as a signal of the Bosnian Croat people's need to increase its participation in Bosnia's politics. The time has come in Bosnia to increase responsibility, he said adding this primarily referred to the Croat people which "in the last ten years lost the most, but not as much as it could lose in the future unless the right political steps are taken now." Coordination chairman Marko Tadic told reporters the two sides concluded at today's meeting that changes to the constitutions of Bosnia's two entities and a new electoral law were currently the most serious political issues in the country. The Bosnian delegation has appealed for all-round Croatian assistance to Croats in Bosnia, Tadic said, adding both sides had concluded the only solution to the current political crisis in Bosnia was dialogue with all willing to sit down and talk. (hina) ha sb