MOSTAR HDZ PARTY'S LEADER PROTESTS TO BILDT

MOSTAR, Jan 12 (Hina) - The head of the Mostar council of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) party, Mile Puljic, on Sunday forwarded a strong protest to the international senior peace administrator in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Carl Bildt, over the act when Stabilization Force (SFOR) members removed a Croatian flag from the building of a grammar school in Mostar on Saturday night, the Bosnian Croat news agency, HABENA, reported on Sunday morning. "Sharing deep grievance and astonishment of the Croatian Democratic Union membership, and, thus, of the overall Croat population in Mostar, we send you the strongest protest, due to the shameful act. We call on you to take most energetic investigation, in line with your powers, and to remove immediately perpetrators of this impertinent act, improper for the civilized world, from the international community's units, which, we still believe, are hear to perform an honest service of ensuring peace," Puljic said in the protest letter. (hina) mš 121129 MET jan 97