BOSNIAN CROAT SELF-RULE SETS UP ITS BODIES

KISELJAK, March 16 (Hina) - The Presidency of the Croat National Assembly in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the legislative council of the temporary Croatian self-rule on Friday established inter-cantonal and inter-municipal co-ordination, the self-rule's head Marko Tokic said on Friday evening. Tokic added that participants in the session, which took place in Kiseljak (outside Sarajevo), decided to give a 60-day-long time term within which they would try to talk with all the relevant factors in order to reach a final solution of the Croat issue in Bosnia. He declined to give any more explanation of today's decisions from Kiseljak. Participants in the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters that the set-up of the inter-cantonal and inter- municipal coordination, which was not precisely defined whether it was actually the government of the Croat people in the country, meant the abandonment of previously announced establishment of the inter-cantonal council, which was labelled by international officials as an attempt to revive Herzeg-Bosnia (the war-time Bosnian areas controlled by the Bosnian Croat units or HVO) or the establishment of the third entity. According to some opinions, today's decisions could be treated as a gradual abandonment of plans to constitute the permanent Croat self-rule in the Bosnian areas populated Croats, owing to the pressure of the international community. (hina) sb ms