HDZ BH PRESIDENCY - BOSNIAN CROAT OFFICIALS FREEZE MANDATES

SARAJEVO, Mar 18 (Hina) - The Presidency of the largest Bosnian Croat party on Thursday decided to freeze the activity and participation of Bosnian Croat officials in all executive and legislative bodies of Bosnia and Bosnia's Croat-Muslim Federation following the attempted murder of a Bosnian Croat official. Federal President and member of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina (HDZ BH) Presidency, Ivo Andric Luzanski, told reporters in Sarajevo Bosnian Croat representatives have froze activity at the Bosnian Assembly's House of Peoples until the culprits in the murder attempt of federal deputy interior minister Jozo Leutar are found and punished. Activities in other bodies will be frozen between March 22 and 28, Luzanski said. The HDZ BH Presidency also demands the irrevocable resignations of the federal premier, the federal interior minister, and the interior minister of Central Bosnia Canton as the parties most responsible for security in the Federation. Bosnian Croat leaders also demand a speedier and more effective investigation, the discovery and punishment of the culprits in the Leutar murder attempt and in all other crimes, as well as of their bosses. They also demand the immediate publishing of the list of persons accused of war crimes against Bosnian Croats, The Hague tribunal to start criminal proceedings, and that the Agency for Investigation and Research (AID) be abolished and removed from all Interior Ministry premises on federal territory within ten days. The Bosnian Croat leadership demands that the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia probe into how the perpetrators of terrorist acts and other parastate institutions active in Bosnia are financed. The OHR is also requested to ensure living and security conditions for Bosnian Croats officials in Bosnian and federal bodies. (hina) ha jn