BOSNIAN FEDERATION PARLIAMENT IN SESSION WITHOUT CROAT DEPUTIES

SARAJEVO, Jan 22 (Hina) - The Bosnian Federation's lower house of parliament began a session in Sarajevo on Wednesday morning without representatives of the leading Bosnian Croat party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). House of Representatives speaker Enver Kreso said that there were conditions for discussion and decision-making as "a sufficient number of deputies" were attending the session. The Federation's House of Representatives consists of 78 deputies of the leading Moslem Democratic Action Party (SDA), 36 deputies of HDZ and 26 deputies of opposition parties. The Bosnian HDZ presidency had called on its representatives to withdraw from federal government bodies until the Moslems agreed to appointing a new president and vice president of the Federation. The participating deputies adopted the proposed 30-item agenda, including a government programme for the next 100 days, bills regulating apartment buyouts, a restitution bill and a privatization bill. (hina) vm mm 221306 MET jan 97