TUZLA, June 28 (Hina) - Bosnian Croat official Ante Jelavic on Wednesday for the first time resolutely denied having discussed the division of Bosnia-Herzegovina with late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman during a conversation last
year, whose transcript was recently published by Croatia's Jutarnji List daily. "By carefully reading the transcript, one can see that I was saying that the Croat political leadership in BH was pro-Dayton and that we were making progress there, that I had put under control the politicisation of the then topical third entity, and that the murder of deputy minister Leutar had resulted in a difficult situation. I did not speak about the division of BH. We talked about strengthening the Croats' position in BH," Jelavic, a member of BH's Presidency and president of the Croatian Democratic Union of BH, told reporters in Tuzla. He said he would like to see the transcr
TUZLA, June 28 (Hina) - Bosnian Croat official Ante Jelavic on
Wednesday for the first time resolutely denied having discussed the
division of Bosnia-Herzegovina with late Croatian President Franjo
Tudjman during a conversation last year, whose transcript was
recently published by Croatia's Jutarnji List daily.
"By carefully reading the transcript, one can see that I was saying
that the Croat political leadership in BH was pro-Dayton and that we
were making progress there, that I had put under control the
politicisation of the then topical third entity, and that the
murder of deputy minister Leutar had resulted in a difficult
situation. I did not speak about the division of BH. We talked about
strengthening the Croats' position in BH," Jelavic, a member of
BH's Presidency and president of the Croatian Democratic Union of
BH, told reporters in Tuzla.
He said he would like to see the transcripts of conversations
Tudjman had with incumbent Croatian President Stipe Mesic in the
early 1990s when Mesic, according to Jelavic, was Tudjman's chief
operative in BH.
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