SARAJEVO, March 30 (Hina) - The international community's High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, has decided to ban the financing of activities of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ BiH) as long as the party's local
officials oppose the administrative unification of ethnically divided schools.
SARAJEVO, March 30 (Hina) - The international community's High
Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, has decided to
ban the financing of activities of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ
BiH) as long as the party's local officials oppose the administrative
unification of ethnically divided schools.#L#
According to a press release issued by the Office of the High
Representative (OHR) on Tuesday, the ban refers to the budgetary
financing of the HDZ BiH at all levels of authority.
Political parties in Bosnia are entitled to funds form the state-run
budget if they have their representatives in municipal councils, or in
parliaments of cantons and the two entities or in the state
parliament.
"The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has placed a temporary freeze
on disbursements of political party funding to the HDZ from all
Cantonal, Entity and State level budgets. This party funding will be
made available again immediately after the competent authorities in
the Central Bosnia and Herzegovina-Neretva Cantons have adopted the
Decision on legal and administrative unification of the remaining "two
schools under one roof". This administrative unification in no way
affects the curricula taught, textbooks used or the languages spoken
in these schools," reads the press release issued on the OHR web
site.
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