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Croats should define what they want of Bosnia

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SARAJEVO, Dec 6 (Hina) - Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina and political parties representing them need to define what kind of position they want to have in Bosnia and communicate among themselves to accomplish their objectives, participants in a round table discussion said in Sarajevo on Wednesday.
SARAJEVO, Dec 6 (Hina) - Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina and political parties representing them need to define what kind of position they want to have in Bosnia and communicate among themselves to accomplish their objectives, participants in a round table discussion said in Sarajevo on Wednesday.

The event gathered Catholic dignitaries and representatives of all major Croat parties, except the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina (HDZ BiH), led by Dragan Covic.

Addressing the round table, the Croat member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Zeljko Komsic, welcomed the fact that currently there were two HDZ parties.

Earlier this year, senior HDZ officials split over possible changes to the Dayton agreement and the country's constitution, and two HDZs - the HDZ BiH and the HDZ 1990, led by Bozo Ljubic - ran in the October general elections.

Komsic, who is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), said that this was good for democratic processes.

What is not good is that the HDZ BiH and the HDZ 1990 have allowed to become hostages of two major Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) parties - the SDA and the Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina (SBiH) - which are now deciding which Croat party will be their partner in the government, Komsic said.

Speaking on behalf of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, Sarajevo Auxiliary Bishop Pero Sudar said that the Croat people in Bosnia was definitely marginalised and that its political leaders had contributed to that.

The dignitary said that attempts to impose constitutional changes that were defined this spring were a final act of division of Bosnia into two parts to the detriment of the Croat people.

A Bosnian Franciscan dignitary, Friar Mijo Dzolan, said that "it is necessary to define a constitution under which Croats too will be constitutional patriots who accept to live with the other two peoples (Bosniaks and Serbs) in an union".

Dubravko Horvat of the HDZ 1990 and Kresimir Zubak, the chief of the New Croat Initiative, also advocated rejecting constitutional changes which they described as incomplete.

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