ZUBAK TO CONTINUE PREPARATIONS FOR FORMATION OF NEW HDZ IN BH

( Editorial: --> 9702 ) SARAJEVO, June 8 (Hina) - The Croat member in Bosnia's collective Presidency Kresimir Zubak Monday informed the President of Croatia and the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Franjo Tudjman that he would continue with preparations for the establishment of a new Bosnian HDZ despite an agreement last week in Zagreb that the HDZ BH would participate in Bosnia's September elections as a uniform party. The differences which have arisen within the current HDZ BH are too large, Zubak said in his Monday letter to Tudjman, adding the current party led by the new HDZ BH president Ante Jelavic had failed to abide by an agreement reached in Zagreb on June 5. Zubak recalled that the Zagreb agreement referring to abstention from any comments had been broken by HDZ official Ivic Pasalic only hours after it was reached. Pasalic had told a press conference that someone from the outside had been involved in the split within the HDZ BH. The day after, Jelavic too broke the no comment agreement with an interview to Split daily Slobodna Dalmacija. The differences between the two sides within the HDZ BH are "insurmountable", Zubak said, as the two sides judged "the attitude towards Bosnia-Herzegovina, the position of the Croat people within it and the interests for the return of displaced Croats" in "completely different" ways. The Croat member in Bosnia's Presidency assessed the Bosnian Croats' general rights were only being respected in some parts of the Bosnian territory. This is in truth a deadly blow to the constitutionality of the Croat people in BH, he said. (hina) ha/bag jn 081540 MET jun 98