MOSTAR/SARAJEVO, Jan 20 (Hina) - The Office chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ante Jelavic, on Thursday issued a document entitled "Reply of the Croat Political Leadership to the Process of Deconstitution of Croats in
Bosnia-Herzegovina" whose aim is to "indicate the worsened constitutional and legal position of the Croat people in Bosnia-Herzegovina, that is, the process of unequal treatment of the three constitutive peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina". The document was sent to ambassadors accredited in the country, international organisations and institutions, senior officials in bodies of the judicial, legislative and executive authorities, parliamentary parties in BH and Croatia, religious communities and cultural and scientific institutions of the Croat people in BH, Jelacic's spokesman Tihomir Begic said. The document is endorsed by legitimate officials of the Croat people in bodies of authori
MOSTAR/SARAJEVO, Jan 20 (Hina) - The Office chairman of the
Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ante Jelavic, on Thursday issued
a document entitled "Reply of the Croat Political Leadership to the
Process of Deconstitution of Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina" whose
aim is to "indicate the worsened constitutional and legal position
of the Croat people in Bosnia-Herzegovina, that is, the process of
unequal treatment of the three constitutive peoples in Bosnia-
Herzegovina".
The document was sent to ambassadors accredited in the country,
international organisations and institutions, senior officials in
bodies of the judicial, legislative and executive authorities,
parliamentary parties in BH and Croatia, religious communities and
cultural and scientific institutions of the Croat people in BH,
Jelacic's spokesman Tihomir Begic said.
The document is endorsed by legitimate officials of the Croat
people in bodies of authority in BH and the Bosnian Federation,
Begic said.
According to him, the document is at the same time an opportunity
for strengthening dialogue with the international community and
all other relevant factors in the process of establishment a self-
sustainable, just and permanent peace in BH.
The document stressed the Croat leadership wishes the Croat people,
as equal and constitutive, to be integrated into a democratic,
decentralised and multi-ethnic Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"The constituency of all three people in the entire Bosnia-
Herzegovina with a consecutive constitutional, legal and
territorial organisation to ensure the standardisation of rights
for all three peoples in the entire Bosnia-Herzegovina, with
maintaining parity and consensus at the level of the state, on a
long-term basis, can ensure a self-sustainable and prosperous
Bosnia-Herzegovina," the document said.
The document says that the process of deconstituting Croats in
Bosnia-Herzegovina "began with diminishing, or almost eliminating
the mechanism of special relations with neighbouring countries,
which, as an integral part of the Dayton Agreement, was intended
primarily to support the least numerous people".
"The most powerful tendencies of deconstitution are reflected in
the effort of unitarisation and centralisation of the Bosnian
Federation, especially in the fields of justice and internal
affairs," the Croat leadership maintained.
The document warned that "unless there is a fast stop to the
exceptionally negative process of deconstitution of Croats in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Croat political leadership and the Croat
people in Bosnia-Herzegovina maintain the legitimate right to an
independent decision on modalities of protection of Constitutional
rights of a sovereign and constitutive people in Bosnia-
Herzegovina".
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