ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Hina) - The parliamentary bench of the opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party will request Sabor speaker Zlatko Tomcic to see that a debate on the implementation of the Dayton agreement and the agreement on
special relations between Croatia and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina be urgently included in the agenda of the next parliamentary session. This statement was made by HDZ president Ivo Sanader at a news conference on Monday. It is high time, Sanader believes, that relations between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina be cleared up because the Provisional Electoral Commission in Bosnia has adopted an election regulation which is contrary to the Dayton agreement and the federal constitution, and is detrimental to the Bosnian Croat people. Until the adoption of the regulation, representatives of Bosnia's three peoples elected their own deputies to the Parliament's House of P
ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Hina) - The parliamentary bench of the opposition
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party will request Sabor speaker
Zlatko Tomcic to see that a debate on the implementation of the
Dayton agreement and the agreement on special relations between
Croatia and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina be urgently
included in the agenda of the next parliamentary session.
This statement was made by HDZ president Ivo Sanader at a news
conference on Monday.
It is high time, Sanader believes, that relations between Croatia
and Bosnia-Herzegovina be cleared up because the Provisional
Electoral Commission in Bosnia has adopted an election regulation
which is contrary to the Dayton agreement and the federal
constitution, and is detrimental to the Bosnian Croat people.
Until the adoption of the regulation, representatives of Bosnia's
three peoples elected their own deputies to the Parliament's House
of Peoples, and according to the new regulation, all
representatives of the three peoples elect all deputies.
Sanader believes the regulation is detrimental for Bosnian Croats.
Over the past ten years, the number of Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina
was halved and only some 400,000 Croats live in Bosnia currently, he
said, adding the trend of emigration is continuing.
The HDZ president believes neither President Stipe Mesic nor
Premier Ivica Racan and Sabor speaker Zlatko Tomcic have adequately
reacted to a recent letter by the BH Presidency member Ante Jelavic
warning about the harmfulness of the new election rule.
Croatia has the moral right and obligation, which is in line with
the Dayton agreement, to react to such an election rule in order to
protect Bosnian Croats, Sanader said.
Any possibility to change the regulation by the election day,
November 11, will be welcomed by the HDZ, he said, adding Mesic,
Racan and the Sabor should voice their opinion on this problem.
The implementation of the Dayton agreement and the Croatia-BH
Federation agreement on special relations has been included in the
agenda of this week's session of the House of Counties, given that
the HDZ has a majority of seats in the upper house, Sanader said
adding the party hopes the issue will also be discussed by the lower
house.
The president of the HDZ bench, Vladimir Seks, said the government
had failed to take any step before the international community
regarding this departure from the Dayton agreement and the federal
constitution, and if it did so, it would not mean that it was
interfering in other state's affairs.
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