JELAVIC: NO COOPERATION WITH NEW CROAT INITIATIVE

( Editorial: --> 5641 ) TUZLA, July 4 (Hina) - "The Presidency and Secretariat-General of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina (HDZ BH) will be transferred from Mostar to (Bosnian capital) Sarajevo next week", HDZ BH president Ante Jelavic said in Tuzla on Saturday. Part of the party infrastructure will remain in Mostar, which will help us achieve a rational balance, Jelavic said. He was heading a high HDZ BH delegation visiting Tuzla, a town in north-eastern Bosnia, where he and members of the HDZ BH Soli Cantonal Committee discussed preparations for Bosnia's September election, voter registration, the establishment of Croatian municipality Soli, and the strengthening of the extant Ravne-Brcko Municipality. HDZ BH will take part in the election independently, Jelavic said. "The party is willing to cooperate with all other Croatian parties and Croatian institutions in BH", he emphasised. "Our common starting point has to be the constitutional position of Croats in BH. In this situation there are no conditions for cooperation with the New Croat Initiative (a new party established by several former HDZ BH members and headed by the Croat representative in Bosnia's collective Presidency Kresimir Zubak)", Jelavic said. "Is the New Croat Initiative actually the international community's new party in BH", he wondered, and assessed "(the new party) will not take a sizeable part of HDZ BH's electoral body." The president of the Bosnian HDZ said his party would officially reconfirm its support to Annexe 7 of the Dayton peace agreement in relation to the return of displaced persons to their homes. Commenting on a recent open letter from Mostar deputy mayor Ivan Prskalo who stated international representative Martin Garrod was persona non grata in the southern Bosnian town, Jelavic said this was "Prskalo's personal view, not the view of the HDZ BH." (hina) ha 041813 MET jul 98