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          "JOINT DEMOCRATS" ABOUT MOSTAR ELECTIONS
Mostar,  June  28,  1996  (Press TWRA) -  Representatives  of  the
coalition  "BH Joint democrats" (SDP, UBSD, HSS, MBO,  RS):  Selim
Beslagic, Ivo Komsic, Zlatko Lagumdzija, Josip Musa, Milivoj Gagro
and   Mesud  Cavra  talked  on  a  press-conference  about  Mostar
elections. They said they did not expect a spectacular victory  of
their list but expressed belief that a reconstruction of the unity
of  Mostar  is important for a renewal of the BH unity, for  which
reason they also want to assist in the mentioned process. "Options
which aim to devide the town and to create national ghettoes  must
be  defeated in Mostar. Whether this will or not take place during
these  elections,  I can hardly know, but this objective  will  be
supported by majority of people. Formation of our list is  just  a
step  towards  the  realization of this aim",  Komsic  said.  "The
passage of refugees thorugh Croatia is disputable, so many  people
could  be  prevented to reach the town. This would persent  a  new
attack upon Mostar and BH. We will request Croatia-BH Council  for
cooperation to enable these people to land in Tuzla, Sarajevo...",
Beslagic said.  "Owing to pressures, threatenings and maltreatment
to  which were exposed some of our candidates we were prepared  to
withdrawn  from the elections. But this would mean we  decided  to
give  everything  to  those  who had already  taken  away  all  we
possessed.  It  is very dangerous to be on our list nowdays.  This
what  happens  to our people here, takes place in  many  other  BH
towns,  where  the  joining  to our option  presents  a  dangerous
choice.  But, if we give up this idea for Bosnia, our  lives  will
become  even  more  endangered.  It  is  a  black  lie  that   the
international monitors ignore what is going on here, so that every
of  them  - IFOR, IPTF, WEU, EUAM, claim that all conditions  have
been  fulfilled,  regarding the elections.  We  possess  evidences
proving  they are familiar with the actual situation, so it  seems
they want to pretend ignoring what is really going on", Lagumdzija
stated.  "Four candidates withdrew from our list, due to pressures
and  threatening. One of them, D. Mateskovic, was even  maltreated
on  his  working  post",  Musa  said.  Musa  and  Komsic  informed
journalists  these pressures are taking place in the part  of  the
town  under  Croatian control. " I have been named traitor  to  my
nation, "Croatian Sejdo Bajramovic" (S. Bajramovic was Milosevic's
"representative  of Albanians", TWRA) and these  accusations  were
proclaimed S. Sagolj and Croatian TV in Western Mostar. I received
an  official invitation by BH TV, from Eastern Mostar,  to  expose
the program of our list", Musa said. (end) A.S.

     BRAJKOVIC, ORUCEVIC AND MUSA ABOUT "CROATIAN  RESIDING TOWN"
Mostar, June 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - On the elections, Mostar will
be  appointed one mayor, one assembly and administrations in three
major Croatian and Bosniak municipalities each, Croat Mostar mayor
Brajkovic, reminded at a press-conference. "We must fight  against
Mostar as it looked like before the war. We allow Mostar to become
once  again "Yugoslavian town". Each nation in the town should  be
ensured  cultural,  national  and religious  identity",  Brajkovic
stated,  adding  that "Croatian people does  not  possess  in  BH,
besides  in  Mostar,  any  other  university,  cultural  or  sport
center",   explaining  that  "we  do  not  want  to  make   Mostar
exclusively Croatian town but it must also be a Croatian town". He
pointed  out  the importance of economy. When a german  journalist
asked him how it is possible that HDZ rebuilds the town when  they
all  destroyed,  even  the  Old Bridge, Brajkovic  answered:  "All
Mostar  bridges  were destroyed by the war for  which  I  am  also
sorry."  "Each town in BH is a residing town of Croats as well  as
of  all  the other nations living there. That is the Mostar  I  am
fighting  for", J. Musa said. Bosnian Mostar Major,  S.  Orucevic,
said  each  BH town will be Croatian as much as Croats  themselves
would  like them to be. Firms from Western Herzegovina and Croatia
are  equally  participating in Sarajevo Fair.  The  same  is  with
school  system,  Catholic  church,  cultural,  humanitarian   etc.
Croatian  organizations everywhere in Bosnia. On the  other  hand,
Bosniak  passing  Boulevard  is  putting  his  life  in  question,
Orucevic said. (end) A.S.
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