MOSTAR, 14 Aug (Hina) - A session of the Mostar City Council, which started at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, was interrupted with several breaks. Disagreement between the Croat and Muslim sides occurred during a discussion on amendments to
the transitional city statute.
MOSTAR, 14 Aug (Hina) - A session of the Mostar City Council, which
started at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, was interrupted with several
breaks. Disagreement between the Croat and Muslim sides occurred
during a discussion on amendments to the transitional city statute.
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The Bosniac councilors proposed that the statute be amended
with a regulation from the agreement the two sides signed on 6
August. According to the regulation, the city's mayor 'would be a
Croat, taking into consideration that the governor of the Neretva
Canton and the city's mayor should be of different nationalities'.
The Croat councilors opposed this proposal, asking that a
decision be made which would accept the whole of the 6 August
agreement.
Since two sides failed to reach agreement on this point, a
break was introduced at 2:30 p.m. Consultations between the Croat
and Bosniac councilors and the European Union special
representative in Mostar, Martin Garrod, are underway.
Croat proposals concerning a change of the agenda was rejected
by a majority vote. Twenty-one representatives from the list of
candidates 'For a United Mostar" voted against, while 16 Croat
representatives (HDZ list) voted for a change of the agenda.
Despite their earlier decision not to accept the re-election
of Hamdija Jahic to the post of the City Council President, the
Croat side, after today's consultations, agreed that Jahic was the
legitimate president of the City Council.
Today's session also verified the mandates of 16 Croat
representatives in the City Council who did not attend a Council
session some 20 days ago, when the mandates of 21 candidates from
the list 'For a United Mostar' were verified.
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