CROAT POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA END MEETING

MOSTAR, Aug 29 (Hina) - Croat politicians from Bosnia-Herzegovina, who are not included in the work of the ruling Alliance for Changes, on Wednesday evening ended a meeting on the upcoming constitutional changes and the status of Croats as a constituent people of Bosnia in the entire country. According to the Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia- Herzegovina Croats are a constituent people in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but in line with the Republika Srpska Constitution they are not a constituent people in that Bosnian Serb entity. The Constitutional Court in Bosnia-Herzegovina last year passed a decision under which ethnic constitutions must change so that Croats and Bosniaks become constituent peoples in Republika Srpska and Serbs in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croat parties and officials of the ruling coalition, the Alliance for Changes, refused to attend the meeting explaining they did not wish to attend a meeting organised by the Croat community Herceg- Bosna. Croat political officials from the ruling coalition also stressed that the return of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the authority institutions was a condition for attending such meetings. (hina) it