HOFFMANN: IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPERTY LAWS IN MOSTAR REGION SHAMEFFULY UNSUCCESSFUL

MOSTAR, March 20 (Hina) - Senior Deputy International High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina Matei Hoffmann on Monday said that the implementation of property laws in Stolac, Capljina, and parts of Mostar were shamefully unsuccessful. Hoffmann said this after talks with local Croat and Bosniak officials of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton and the southern Bosnia- Herzegovina town of Mostar. He stressed that the international community would continue to pressure officials in those cantons, because offices for housing issues had not yet been established. The Senior Deputy High Representative said that children of Bosniak returnees in Stolac were attending classes under difficult conditions in a house. Even though the international community renovated a local school building, Bosniak children are not allow to attend it, he stressed. Hoffmann also said that a high school building located in the central Mostar district, in which classes are held in line with the Croatian school programme and schedule, can admit more than 1,200. Hoffmann advocated that both Bosniak and Croat children attend classes together, in the same building, and take classes in line with different programmes and schedules, until a joint plan and programme or several complementary plans, on the model of Switzerland, are implemented. (hina) it mm