BOSNIAN HDZ ON FAILED ATTEMPT TO ADOPT FEDERAL RADIO-TV BILL

MOSTAR, July 22 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Party of Bosnia- Herzegovina (HDZ BH) on Thursday once more regretted "the lack of political will on the part of Bosniak (Muslim) representatives in both houses of the parliament of the Federation of BH to adopt a bill on (federal) Radio-Television." In a statement issued after a Wednesday session of the federation's House of Peoples, the largest Bosnian Croat party claims the representatives, in particular those of the Coalition for Integral and Democratic BH, missed the opportunity to regulate an integral media space in BH, especially in electronic media, and failed to show their commitment to the Madrid Declaration and conditions required of BH to access the Council of Europe. The HDZ BH reminds the bill on federal radio-television is a compromise bill formulated at sessions of the federation's Forum and government, with support from the office of the international high representative for BH. The HDZ BH says in the statement it adopted the bill with the best intentions that it be passed in parliamentary procedure. The Bosnian Croat party holds the Coalition responsible for not accepting the compromises related to the mentioned law, and called on the high representative's office to condemn such behaviour and state its view on the fate of the bill. (hina) ha