BOSNIAN HDZ PARTY OFFERS NEGOTIATIONS

MOSTAR, May 4 (Hina) - Bosnia's HDZ party on Thursday formed a team for negotiations with the international community and Bosnian bodies of authority on ways of overcoming the institutional crisis which erupted after Bosnian authorities were constituted according to "unconstitutional electoral rules and regulations." The team will, however, not negotiate with the "illegitimate" Croat representatives in the Alliance for Changes government. "There are no prerequisites for negotiations with the illegitimate Croat representatives in the Alliance," the president of the Croat National Congress (HNS), Marko Tokic, told reporters in the southern town of Mostar on Friday after a session of the Croat Self- rule Inter-cantonal Council and the HNS Presidency. There can be no talks with "Prlic, Zubak and Tadic" because they were not elected as representatives of the Bosnian Croat people at the Nov. 11 polls, said Tokic. He explained the HNS agreed the negotiating team should comprise members of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) party given that the international community did not recognise the HNS. If the negotiations prove successful, the Croat Self-rule will be dissolved, he announced. The minimum the Croats in Bosnia will consent to includes an integral constitutional reform according to a decision of the Bosnian Constitutional Court proclaiming all three peoples constituent throughout Bosnian territory, the establishment of the House of Nations in both Bosnian entities, securing rotation, parity and consensus in decision-making, and an electoral law under which Croats would be enabled to elect their representatives to the House of Nations and their candidate for the state presidency. (hina) ha sb