DAYTON IN MIST OF WISHES - VJESNIK COMMENT PIECE

ZAGREB, 26 Feb (Hina) - In his text "Dayton in a mist of wishes" published in today's VJESNIK, Ivan Sabic writes about the relations between the Federation and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Both the demonstrative 'unification' of Mostar and the presentation of Bosnian Croats as the enemy in their own country as well as diminishing or even completely denying the role of Croatian forces in the liberation of the parts of Bosnia from Serb occupation - are in the function of the same politics. The author writes that the ultimate goal of the politics is to present the Washington Accord as the beginning of the reintegration of Herzeg-Bosnia into the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina where all Croatian institutions would be dismissed or subordinated to the Republic's institutions, which have been under the total supervision of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) for a long time. "The meaning of the Washington Accords, as they are read in the constitution of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is completely different. It doesn't stipulate the reintegration of Herzeg-Bosnia into the Bosnian republic but rather the creation of a new constitutional union of two equal nations who will be, in accordance with the Dayton treaty, one of the entities of the future Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the Bosnian republic doesn't play a major role except that of the carrier of international legitimacy of Bosnia and Herzegovina the way it was defined in the Dayton treaty," the article says. (Hina) jn ns 261243 MET feb 96