HDZ BODY DISMISSES MOVES TO FORM NEW BOSNIAN CROAT PARTY

( Editorial: --> 0245 ) ZAGREB, June 10 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Union's (HDZ) National Council on Wednesday attacked moves by some of its Bosnian Croat officials to form a new party. A statement from the governing party's secretariat said a HDZ National Council meeting chaired by Croatian President and party leader Franjo Tudjman discussed current political issues. It said the national council took the view that the decision by several officials of the HDZ's Bosnia-Herzegovina wing to form a new party was politically mistaken and unjustifiable, as well as contrary to an agreement reached on June 5 in Zagreb on maintaining the HDZ BH's unity. But it expressed a belief that this move would not endanger the equality and sovereignty of the Croat people in BH. Meanwhile, the HDZ National Council gave its full support to the Croatian Government's proposal to revise the state budget for 1998. It particularly expressed satisfaction with the large increase in budget revenues which would exclude the need to borrow from abroad and would allow considerably greater investment in the building of infrastructure, reconstruction, rural development and agriculture, social welfare, science, culture and general increase in the standard of living for all Croatian citizens. The HDZ National Council also backed the government's final bill on the rights and responsibilities of state officials and the final bill on separating Croatian Post and Telecommunications (HPT) into two separate enterprises, Croatian Post and Croatian Telecommunications. (Hina) mbr /lml 101808 MET jun 98