STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bosnian Croat Nationalists Determined to Form Own Republic ZAGREB, Jun 28, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Bosnian Croat nationalist leader Ante Jelavic said Wednesday that the four-month old self-rule bid is aimed at forming an ethnic Croat republic within Bosnia. "I think that Muslims, that is (Bosnian Muslim wartime leader Alija) Izetbegovic, would also rather accept Bosnia-Herzegovina as a federation consisting of three federal units, which means the complete demarcation," Jelavic told Croatian weekly Globus. Bosnia is currently made up of two entities -- the Bosnian Serb republic and the Muslim-Croat federation. Croat nationalists, led by the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ), proclaimed autonomy in Croat-dominated parts of Bosnia in early March, refusing to recognize both the Muslim-Croat entity and the country's central institutions. Following their appeals, the majority of 7,500 Bosnian Croat soldiers left the Muslim-Croat joint army in March. Although most of them had since renewed their contracts with the defense ministry of Muslim-Croat entity, ministry's officials have declined to give informations on the number of soldiers who have so far re-entered barracks of the joint army. Jelavic, heading the HDZ, is a former Croat member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency dismissed by the country's top international envoy over his role in the separatist movement. The move, seen as a direct threat to the Dayton peace accords that ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war, was condemned by the international community and Croatian pro-European authorities. Globus also published the text of a proposed draft constitution for a "Croat Republic", stating it was a "federal unit of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a state of Croat people and all its citizens." In it "Serbs and Muslims will have those rights that for example we do not have in the Republika Srpska -- they will have their constitutive rights," Jelavic added. According to the weekly nationalists are planning to take first radical steps in next few months culminating in a referendum on forming a separate entity within Bosnia. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
