SARAJEVO, Jan 26 (Hina) - The Croatian National Council for Bosnia-
Herzegovina on Friday wrote an open letter to the high
representative Carl Bildt, urging him to ensure that the principles
of equal rights, multiethnicity and multiculturality are respected
in the establishment of new Sarajevo city authorities.
The letter, signed by chairman Ivo Komsic, insists that the
city administration be established on a parity basis. On the other
hand, local municipal authorities should be established on the
basis of proportional representation.
"The Sarajevo Croats' right to participate in the city
authorities in this way not based on any political agreement but on
their participation in the struggle against the (Serb) military and
political aggression," Komsic wrote.
"The proportion of Croats who were killed in this struggle
is twice their percentage in the general population," he wrote.
The Croatian National Council of Bosnia-Herzegovina was
founded in 1993, amid Croats vs. Moslems war, as a group of Bosnian
Croat politicians and intellectuals -- mostly from Sarajevo -- who
had opposed Zagreb's official policy toward Bosnia-Herzegovina as
well as Moslem hardliners in Sarajevo.
Leading figures of the Council -- Ivo Komsic, currently
member of the seven-member Bosnian Presidency, and Ivan Lovrenovic,
writer and publisher from Sarajevo and currently advisor at the
Bosnian Embassy in Zagreb -- had worked out the outline settlement
of the 1993-conflict and in fact inspired the later U.S. sponsored
Washington Accord.
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