LEADING BOSNIAN MOSLEM AND CROAT PARTIES HOLD SESSION IN POSAVINA

ORASJE, Jan 24 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and Party of Democratic Action (SDA) canton committees, Wednesday discussed a status of the Bosnian Posavina following the Dayton conference and peace accords signed in Paris. "The Dayton agreement is a solution which we must accept, as it brings a peace, but we cannot accept annexes of maps, as in line with such maps most citizens of the Bosnian Posavina are outside the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The maps legalize the ethnic cleansing, and therefore they are unacceptable," the SDA and the HDZ parties concluded at the session held in Orasje. #L# The HDZ and SDA coordination committee proposed that the establishment of authorities should continue in accordance to the Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Constitution of the Posavina Canton. Since there were some differences as regards interpreting the Constitution of the Posavina Canton, the committee agreed on changing some articles of the Constitution. In line with the agreement, the official language in the Canton will be Croatian and Bosnian, and the official alphabet will be Latin. Every further change of the Constitution will need a majority vote of Croatian and Bosniac (Moslem) deputies. Article 90 sections will be removed which refer to the usage of acts of the Croatian republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. The SDA and HDZ parties will continue to hold sessions, because it is in the joint interest of Bosnian Posavina residents. They also said that today's agreement created conditions for convening a regular session of the Posavina Parliament. (hina) mms 242331 MET jan 96