MOSTAR HDZ DOUBTS IF KOSCHNIK'S DECISION IS IN LINE WITH CONSTITUT

CONSTITUT $ ION MOSTAR, Feb 8 (Hina) - The city committee of the Mostar-based branch of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) party of Bosnia- Herzegovina, Thursday decided to ask from the President of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kresimir Zubak, to take action at the Constitutional Court of the Bosnian Federation aimed at assessing whether the decision of the EU Administrator Hans Koschnik on the administrative set-up of Mostar was in line with the Constitution. #L# At a statement issued after today's session, the HDZ city committee said they would not propose their candidates at election unless breaches of the Federal Constitution and Dayton agreements stopped. "The agreed-upon principles on the transitional statute of the city of Mostar, included in an annex of the agreement on the strengthening of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, oblige us and all other signatories, and no one, particularly not the EU Administration, has the right to interpret or breach them arbitrarily ," the statement said. "The rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Dayton accord to every individual and to constituent nations, cannot be denied, as this has been done by the Administrator Hans Koschnik on the ground of the EU decision," the HDZ statement said. The HDZ city committee supported Croat representatives at the advisory council at the EU Administration, who had decided not to participate in the work of that body any longer. (hina) jn mms 081745 MET feb 96