The meeting, organised by Croat member of the Bosnian collective presidency Zeljko Komsic, gathered representatives of political parties, members of the national parliament, Catholic Church dignitaries, including Cardinal Vinko Puljic, and representatives of non-governmental organisations such as the Napredak cultural society and the Croatian National Council.
The chairmen of the two strongest Bosnian Croat parties, Dragan Covic of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) and Bozo Ljubic of the HDZ 1990, did not attend, but were represented by their aides.
Komsic said that the two leaders had confirmed the readiness of their parties to participate in meetings of this kind in the future.
"This is the first in a series of similar meetings, considering the inevitability of changing the constitutional organisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina," Komsic said, adding that Croat representatives were yet to harmonise their views on the issue.
Komsic stressed that there had been "no mention of a third entity" as a possible solution and that all the participants were united in the view that it was necessary to ensure that the Croats have the same starting position as the two other constituent peoples (Bosniaks and Serbs) when the process of constitutional change begins.
"There is a natural consensus among the Croats that Bosnia and Herzegovina is their homeland and that they should have equal status as the two other peoples," Komsic said.
The president of the Napredak society, Franjo Topic, said that it was also necessary to get the Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska to support constitutional changes for the greater good of the entire country and that it was of vital importance that the people of Republika Srpska started to regard Bosnia and Herzegovina as their own country.