MOSTAR MOSTAR, Feb 5 (Hina) - U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Clifford Bond, called on Mostar Mayor and Deputy Mayor Hamdija Jahic and Ljubo Beslic respectively to participate in the implementation of the new statute for this
southern city, imposed recently by the High Representative to Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown.
MOSTAR, Feb 5 (Hina) - U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Clifford
Bond, called on Mostar Mayor and Deputy Mayor Hamdija Jahic and Ljubo
Beslic respectively to participate in the implementation of the new
statute for this southern city, imposed recently by the High
Representative to Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown.#L#
Ambassador Bond warned that setting obstacles in the implementation of
this document would be very irresponsible.
After Thursday's meeting with the U.S. diplomat, Jahic, a member of
the (Muslim) Party of Democratic Action (SDA) which recently
threatened to boycott the new statute, said that he as the city's
mayor and SDA official did not want to be involved in any form of
obstruction of the implementation of Ashdown's proposal.
Ashdown's statute envisages the annulment the current six
municipalities in the city in which three were preponderantly
populated by Bosnian Muslims and the other three by Croats.
Jahic confirmed that the SDA leadership had concluded that Ashdown's
proposal should be implemented and that the party's local branch
accepted this conclusion.
Deputy Mayor Beslic, a representative of the Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ), whose local officials were against a part of Ashdown's proposal
under which there would be six instead of one electoral unit in
Mostar, said that the local HDZ would follow the conclusions of the
HDZ Presidency on the implementation of the new statute, and that he
would officially notify Ashdown of this on Friday.
(Hina) ms