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Round table discussion emphasises importance of unity of Bosnian Croats

Autor: mses
ZAGREB, Sept 15 (Hina) - There seems no chances at this moment to set up a third entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina or to organise a new international conference on that country like the 1995 Dayton conference, but the Croats can improve their position if they reach a consensus on what they want, it was said at a round table discussion on the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organised by the "Prsten" association of Bosnian Croats in Zagreb on Thursday.

The conference also heard that in order to ensure the establishment of the third, Croat entity in Bosnia it was necessary to meet three conditions: obtain the consent from the international community, obtain the consent of the other two constituent peoples -- Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Serbs and reach consensus on which areas will make up that new entity.

Kresimir Zubak, a former president of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a former member of the country's collective presidency said that none of those conditions was achievable.

However, changes are possible through the strengthening of state institutions, and modifying both entities in the legal and organisational terms, he said pushing for the use of democratic means in those efforts.

Under the Dayton peace accords, Bosnia is divided in the two entities: the Bosniak-Croat federation with Bosniaks being a more numerous people and the Serb entity.

Zubak said that the proposed changes also required a higher turnout of the Croats at elections. He also said that the main cause of the Croats' inequality in Bosnia was the existence of the Serb republic on the 49 per cent of the country's territory.

Addressing the event, Croatia's Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said that her country would continue supporting the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina as it was its constitutional and moral obligation.

Former Croatian foreign minister Mate Granic, who was together with Zubak one of Croatian participants in the Dayton peace conference, said that the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina must shape a clear policy and clearly define dangers for their existence. Only after that Croatia can define its policy, for the time being it can only agree that the Croats in Bosnia are endangered, he said ruling out a possibility of the United States to be engaged at this moment in efforts to organise any new "Dayton" conference due to its engagement in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

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