CANTON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE PREPARES TRAVNIK FOR RESTRUCTURING

( Editorial: --> 0614 ) TRAVNIK, July 29 (Hina) - Members of the Central Bosnia Canton assembly on Wednesday adopted without debate an amendment to the cantonal constitution on the restructuring of the Travnik municipality. The amendment allows the county seat to be organised on the basis of the same principles governing the southern Bosnia-Herzegovina city of Mostar, with power divided and shared between Croats and Bosniaks (Muslims). Acceptance of the constitutional change was resisted for a long time by the Bosniak (Muslim) side, but it eventually caved in to strong pressure by the international community and Deputy High Representative Hanns Schumacher. During the process, councillors from the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) persevered with demands to the international community that the illegal Bosniak secret police AID be closed down, especially those based in police administration buildings in the Bosniak- dominated towns of Travnik and Bugojno. Croat councillors had also wanted Bosniak officials to be more forceful in demanding the finding of instigators of crimes committed against Croat returnees in Travnik. (Hina) mbr as 292323 MET jul 98