MUSLIM SIDE STAUNCHLY AGAINST REVISION OF DAYTON

( Editorial: --> 9350 ) SARAJEVO, April 24 (Hina) - Adamir Jerkovic, the spokesperson for the chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic, said on Friday that any discussions about revisions or amendments to the Dayton Agreement were unacceptable to the Muslim side, and so were the suggestions given by some Croatian officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina recently. At a Sarajevo press conference Jerkovic said that the statements given by Zubak's chief-of-staff Martin Raguz, and the president of the HDZ for Bosnia-Herzegovina Bozo Rajic - to the effect that the Dayton-established arrangement of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially the Federation was not functional - were the essence of an "anti-Dayton package". According to Jerkovic, illegal financial restructuring of firms in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and President Tudjman's initiative to demilitarise it, complete the aforementioned "package". "The Dayton Agreement, a compromise achieved with great effort, is the foundation for the coexistence of different nations in Bosnia- Herzegovina and for peace in the region," Jerkovic said. "We are against any revision of the Dayton Agreement, because it makes a democratic, multiethnic and multicultural BH possible." He stressed that the establishment of ethnically clean cantons in the Federation would be an inverted process, contrary to civilised standards, and is opposed also by the international community. (hina) as jfk/mrb 242142 MET apr 98