AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT ON JOINT POLICE UNNECESSARY - RAJIC

ZAGREB, July 8 (Hina) - Commenting on the failure of Bosnian Moslems and Croats on Monday to sign an agreement on a joint police force in the southern Hercegovina-Neretva canton, the leader of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bozo Rajic, said on Monday night that an amendment to the agreement was unnecessary. "Our cantonal officials today went to the Mostar office of the international High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina and signed the offered document. However, they were also offered a three-point amendment which had never been discussed before. For that reason the Bosniacs (Moslems) refused to sign and that's the whole truth," Rajic said in a late night Croatian television news programme. "That is a totally new fact of which none of us, including (Croat member of the Bosnian presidency) Mr Zubak, has known anything before. That is an unnecessary amendment and I think its aim is to exert further pressure on the Croats in Mostar and the Federation of Bosnia- Herzegovina," Rajic said, adding that the Moslems' ultimate goal was not to sign and implement the agreement on joint cantonal police. (hina) vm 080955 MET jul 97