Sarajevo archbishop and US ambassador meet to discuss Bosnia constitutional changesSARAJEVO, April 7 (Hina) - Even ten years after the signing of theDayton peace agreement, the Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina have "nosecure foothold" in
that country, the Archbishop of Sarajevo, CardinalVinko Puljic, said during talks with US Ambassador Douglas McElhaneyon Thursday, as quoted by the Bosnian Catholic news agency KTA onFriday.
SARAJEVO, April 7 (Hina) - Even ten years after the signing of the
Dayton peace agreement, the Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina have "no secure
foothold" in that country, the Archbishop of Sarajevo, Cardinal Vinko Puljic,
said during talks with US Ambassador Douglas McElhaney on Thursday, as quoted
by the Bosnian Catholic news agency KTA on Friday. McElhaney, who
mediated recent talks on constitutional changes in Bosnia-Herzegovina, had
requested a meeting with Puljic to inform him of the results of the talks after
the Bosnian Roman Catholic bishops openly opposed any changes that would
legalise the present administrative division of the country in two entities --
the Serb entity called Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation.
Asked by the US ambassador to state his opinion on constitutional
changes, Puljic said that the Bosnian Croats had been betrayed several times
and that the two entities meant "death for the Croat people," according to
KTA.
McElhaney presented Puljic with the proposed constitutional amendments,
and announced the possibility of meeting again after Easter.