MOSTAR, March 17 (Hina) - The Croat National Assembly (HNS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday denied a statement given by Ljubo Cesic Rojs (of the Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ) who on Friday, during a session of Croatia's
parliament, asserted that the HNS had established the government of the Croat self-rule in Kiseljak (outside Sarajevo) that day.
MOSTAR, March 17 (Hina) - The Croat National Assembly (HNS) in
Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday denied a statement given by Ljubo
Cesic Rojs (of the Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ) who on Friday,
during a session of Croatia's parliament, asserted that the HNS had
established the government of the Croat self-rule in Kiseljak
(outside Sarajevo) that day.#L#
The HNS issued a statement reading also that it did not would like
that Bosnian Croat leadership's decisions be a millstone around the
neck of the official policy in Zagreb.
"We most resolutely refute the statement of a MP, Ljubo Cesic Rojs,
in the Croatian Sabor, who said the Croat National Assembly
constituted the government of the Croat self-rule in Kiseljak and
cited names of people in that government," the statement read.
The HNS explained that in Kiseljak it had set up a co-ordinating
body of the Inter-cantonal Council.
The post of chief co-ordinator was given to Martin Raguz, a moderate
politician in the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina
(HDZ BiH).
Yesterday participants in the Kiseljak meeting did not want to
either confirm or deny whether the newly-established inter-
cantonal and inter-municipal co-ordination should actually be
treated as the Bosnian Croat government.
The Assembly said it did not support Sabor's discussions on Bosnian
Croats which "serve for scoring political points in inter-party
jockeying for power in the Republic of Croatia."
It called on international officials and representatives of
Bosniak (Moslem) and Serb sides to try, in coming 60 days, "to
intensify serious talks on the settlement of issues which are of the
vital interest for the Croat people and a democratic Bosnia-
Herzegovina, and in particular on the implementation of the ruling
of Bosnia's Constitutional Court on all the three peoples (Croats,
Moslems and Serbs) being constituent and on the adoption of a
permanent electoral law."
The HNS underlined that it did not want to drag "the Republic of
Croatia into problems in Bosnia-Herzegovina, or to be a millstone
around the neck of the official policy in Zagreb or the pretext for
anybody's bad policy."
Calling on political subject in Croatia to hold dialogue, the
Assembly reiterated an initiative about the revocation of an
agreement on special relations between (Croat-Moslem) Federation
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia.
"The agreement has not brought anything particular for Croats in
Bosnia or to the Republic of Croatia, and served only as an alibi to
some who made groundless accusations of Croats from both sides of
the border," read the statement.
The HNS called on Zagreb and Sarajevo to strike up good ties between
the two countries.
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