MOSTAR MOSTAR, Oct 17 (Hina) - The President of Bosnia's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ BiH), Ante Jelavic, on Tuesday said his party was advocating "the uniting of Mostar as a single city." Jelvic is the first HDZ BiH official to
have openly stated that his party favoured the uniting of Mostar. So far, officials of this party have used a syntagm "functional unity" when speaking about bids to overcome problems in this southern city divided into western and eastern part during the Croat-Muslim conflict in 1993 and 1994. Upon the conclusion of the Dayton peace accords, Mostar was organised as a city with six municipalities: three Croat-populated and three Muslim-populated municipalities. Jelavic's statement, quoted by a local TV station last night, ensued 10 days after he was re-elected as the HDZ BiH President at the recent party convention. At that convention Jelavic, who was this spring barred from
MOSTAR, Oct 17 (Hina) - The President of Bosnia's Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ BiH), Ante Jelavic, on Tuesday said his party
was advocating "the uniting of Mostar as a single city."
Jelvic is the first HDZ BiH official to have openly stated that his
party favoured the uniting of Mostar.
So far, officials of this party have used a syntagm "functional
unity" when speaking about bids to overcome problems in this
southern city divided into western and eastern part during the
Croat-Muslim conflict in 1993 and 1994.
Upon the conclusion of the Dayton peace accords, Mostar was
organised as a city with six municipalities: three Croat-populated
and three Muslim-populated municipalities.
Jelavic's statement, quoted by a local TV station last night,
ensued 10 days after he was re-elected as the HDZ BiH President at
the recent party convention.
At that convention Jelavic, who was this spring barred from
performing all political duties under a decree of the international
community's High Representative to Bosnia, Wolfgang Petritsch, who
accused him of violating the country's constitution, announced his
party's readiness to resume negotiations with the international
community and HDZ MPs' return to Bosnia's state parliament and the
Croat-Muslim federal parliament. The HDZ representatives left
parliamentary seats boycotting the constitution of new
authorities.
Prior to the October 6 convention of the HDZ BiH, Austrian diplomat
Petritsch warned that Jelavic's re-election at the helm of the HDZ
BiH could weaken the position of that party as well as of the Croat
people in Bosnia.
Jelavic's statement about his support to bids to unite Mostar seems
to be yet another attempt of his party to come out of isolation.
(hina) ms