CROATIA, BH TO FORM JOINT PARLIAMENTARY GROUP

ZAGREB, June 2 (Hina) - A Croatian parliamentary official said on Friday Croatia would assist the Croat people in Bosnia-Herzegovina transparently and as much as it was able to. "We have clearly said that Croatia will assist the Croat people in BH as much as it can. It is the least numerous people and it is in a difficult situation. More than 50 percent have relocated, and we will assist so that they don't relocate any more," said Zdravko Tomac, chairman of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. He spoke to the press following a visit by a delegation of the BH parliament's Commission for International and Foreign Affairs. Tomac pointed out Croatia's assistance would be plain and effected "without interference in BH's internal affairs." The president of the BH commission, Branko Dokic, told the same news conference today's talks had addressed concrete and not political issues. "We discussed the fate of the most endangered group of the population, the refugees," he said. "We agreed that the right to a home and the right to ownership is every individual's indisputable right." Croatia's Tomac said it had been agreed cooperation between the two countries should be intensified, and announced a delegation of the Croatian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee would soon visit BH's capital Sarajevo to that effect. "By then we have to prepare an agreement on the establishment of a parliamentary group which would be in charge of resolving the issues of residents from BH and Croatia which have not been resolved in the two countries' relations. The idea is to form such a parliamentary working group over the next month," said Tomac. (hina) ha mm