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IS DAYTON JUST TRUCE - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BH

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ZAGREB, Mar 15 (Hina) - The two-day international conference "Bosnia-Herzegovina After Dayton", which began in Zagreb on Saturday, raised the issue of the efficiency of military cooperation between Bosniaks (Muslims) and Croats in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH), on which the peace process on the Balkans greatly depends. The conference was opened by the manager of the Applied Social Research Institute of Zagreb, Ivan Rogic, who said that events in BH had a bearing on Croatia's own stability, and that there was at the moment in BH a deconstruction of an integrality model, to which Croatia was not indifferent, since many Croats lived there. The manager of the Croatian Strategic Research Centre, in whose organization the conference is taking place, Marin Sopt, said that the issue of BH challenged the security in south-eastern Europe. Croatian Deputy Defense Minister, Kresimir Cosic, warned about the insufficiency of post-Dayton cooperation. Due to differing interests and values, the federal partners in the building of the BH Federation gave priority to different goals, which resulted in separate strategies, he assessed. Good military and civil relations must be established, Cosic said, including a strong defense ministry and the depoliticizing of the army. At the moment, the Federation army was acquiring weaponry, regardless of the fact that there existed no strategy of its activity and the generals were making decisions out of civil control, Cosic further said, adding that the situation on the ground was more complex and there was an intensive propaganda war in which Croats were blamed for everything. Cabinet chief of the Federation's Defense Minister, Martin Bevanda, on many points agreed with Cosic and said that federal partners could not enter international integrations without the assistance of the international community. There would be no real peace until institutions which would enable the admission into international integrations, such as the Partnership for Peace for instance, were established, Bevanda said, and also warned about the still existing idea of a big Serbia and Muslim radicalism, which were a threat to peace, especially if international forces left BH. BH Ambassador at the United Nations, Muhamed Sacirbay, said that Croatia and BH had an interweaving past and future, and that they should therefore trust more their relations and force the international community to consider them as equals. Sacirbay said that the EU was becoming exclusive as an economic club of rich members and that the international community had had no vision as to what to do with BH, which caused an institutional vacuum. Dayton was now just a truce, Sacirbay said, but added that the Federation was a basis for the democratization and the reintegration of BH. U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith argued with the public stand that the Dayton Accord had been signed just to implement its military side. We wanted a lasting peace, which could be achieved only by the implementation of everything that had been agreed on, i.e. the return of refugees, the condemnation of war criminals and the preservation of the integrity of BH, which was chosen by 70 percent of its citizens, Galbraith said. The international community rewarded those who cooperated in the implementation of the Dayton Accord, and the part of BH under the Federation had been the best in this respect so far, Galbraith further said, adding that Republika Srpska had refused to cooperate, thinking that the exercising of human rights would undermine its existence. Serb authorities in BH must look up to Serbs in Eastern Slavonia, who were currently implementing the Erdut Agreement, Galbraith said. Croatia and the BH Federation had an open door for cooperation with the U.S., which would enable a faster integration into international institutions, a bigger economic cooperation and prosperity, Galbraith said, adding that Croatia must enable all Serbs to return to their homes, respect freedom of the media, while the BH Federation must enable the return of all people to their homes. Those who should divide BH into ethnic unions would not succeed, Galbraith concluded, and added that lasting peace required democracy and a law equal for all. (hina) ha 151954 MET mar 97

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