Our main objectives are: 
democracy, freedom, justice and truth


Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina


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We have defended Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war, we
will not give it up in peace


Table of Contents
Bosnian Herzegovinian Patriotism	4
Political Reality of Bosnia Herzegovina	7
Character of the War from 1992 to 1995 	12
War Damage				14
War Crimes				14
Return of Refugees			16
Government				17
Defense					19
Police					20
Donations				20
Transition				21
Entrepreneurial Economy			23
Education				27
Religion				28
Vakufs and Similar Contributions	29
Pensioners				30
Military Saving Bankbooks		32
Media					33
Sandzak 				33
International Relations			36
Inter Party Cooperation			37




I

Bosnian Herzegovinian Patriotism

	1.
Political future of Bosnia Herzegovina as a state is clearly
expressed by  the will of the Bosnian Herzegovinian people
during the referendum conducted on March 1, 1992. During the
referendum, 64 percent of Bosnian citizens voted for
independent, sovereign, undivided, democratic and civil
state. They have also expressed their will to defend their
country from external aggression and internal enemies.

2.
Respecting the will of the people of Bosnia
Herzegovina -- which was expressed during the
referendum -- on April 6, 1992 the international
community recognized the independence,
sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, within its existing borders and
accepted it as the full member of the United
Nations.

3.
The so-called Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) carried out
the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, internationally recognized country.   Former
Yugoslav National Army and Chetnik paramilitary units, which
were established by the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and
equipped, armed and organized with the assistance of the
former Yugoslav National Army carried out the aggression.
These paramilitary units, in cooperation with parts of
former Yugoslav National Army, proclaimed the so-called
Army of Republika Srpska in May 1992.
At the same time the Constitutional Court of Bosnia
Herzegovina proclaimed that SDS was a terrorist organization
and its further activities were forbidden.

The extreme part of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
proclaimed the so-called Croatian Community of
Herzeg-Bosnia. Like the so-called Republika Srpska, the
so-called Herzeg-Bosnia started with the process of
secession, thus supporting the aggressors and the Chetnik
rebels. At the same time the so-called Herzeg-Bosnia was
preparing an armed rebellion, which was to take place after
the cease fire between so-called Yugoslavia and Croatia. The
objective was to take over parts of the territory belonging
to the sovereign and internationally recognized state and
unite them with Croatia. This, in fact, would represent the
realization of the agreement between Franjo Tudjman, the
Croatian President, and Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian
President, reached at Karadjordjevo in Serbia (1991), which
they aimed at the destruction of Bosniaks -- Moslems -- as a
political power and division of the Bosnian state between
Serbia and Croatia.


4.
With enormous enthusiasm the patriots of Bosnia and
Herzegovina organized within the Patriotic League, the Green
Berets and part of the Ministry of Interior of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, defended the sovereignty and integrity of
Bosnia and Herzegovina from both the aggressors and internal
military rebels. They were poorly armed, often starving, but
willing to give their lives for their country.

Without the knowledge and the agreement  of those
organizations, but also without the knowledge of 2 500 000
citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who were expelled from
their homes and land, the current government (the ruling
party) was signing all the agreements proposed during
international conferences, starting with Lisbon and all the
way to Dayton. By doing so, the authorities did not comply
with the results of the Badinter Committee and the
conclusions of the London Conference (according to which
Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats were not granted the right
to territorial sovereignty.) In the same manner, the current
government signed the Washington Agreement and the Dayton
Accords. In other words, it has given up the integrity and
the sovereignty of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

5.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a
democratic, citizens and anti-nationalist movement of
Bosnian people:  Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croat and
all those citizens who see Bosnia Herzegovina as their
homeland, no matter whether they are living in Bosnia
Herzegovina or abroad.

The objective of our political struggle is the same as
during the liberation war from 1992 to 1995 and that is to:

PRESERVE THE UNDIVIDED AND SOVEREIGN STATE OF BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA ON THE PRINCIPLES OF PARLIAMENTARY AND CIVIC 
DEMOCRACY, WITHIN  INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED BORDERS OF
THE REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, WHICH IS A
HISTORICAL, GEOPOLITICAL AND LEGAL FACT.

II 

Political Reality of Bosnia Herzegovina

6.
The tragedy of the Bosnian people, total political confusion
and absolute domination of pseudo nationalistic and
nationalistic political options over the government policy
are the main characteristics of the political and social
reality in Bosnia Herzegovina. The consequence of such
policies is ethnic division of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  What
is the background of this situation?

7.
In its public statements the Party of Democratic Action
(SDA) declared support for the independent, sovereign and
undivided Bosnia Herzegovina. Because of this proclaimed
policy, SDA won the support of many Bosnians. By
forming the coalition with SDS and HDZ it won the greatest
part of power during the first free and multiparty elections
held in 1990.  However, during secret negotiations with its
coalition partners on ethnic (not political!) basis, SDA
agreed to ethnic division/secession of the state of Bosnia
and Herzegovina. On March 18, 1992, the President of SDA
accepted and signed the maps offered by the SDS that
outlined the division of Bosnia Herzegovina. They called the
document "The Sarajevo Declaration"; it was signed in
"Konak" residence in Sarajevo. Following this logic of
secession, or in fact ethnic division of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, the next agreement signed was called "The Split
Agreement"; it was concluded between the HDZ and SDA in
the beginning of May 1992. That document gave the
possibility for Bosnia and Herzegovina to be organized as a
federation or confederation, based on the Lisbon Agreement.
This document gave open support for the political option
that the SDS was interested in. In practice it represented
the beginning of dissolution  of the internationally
recognized state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. By this step the
Party of Democratic Action, especially its President, abused
the mandate given to it by the citizens during the elections
held in November 18, 1990 and the referendum held on
February 29, 1992. The elected officials from the
nationalist parties holding positions in the government
institutions used their authority against the Constitution.
They acted in their own interests, claiming that all they
did was in the "interest of the people."  I fact all that
was against the interest of the people on whose behalf they
claimed to speak. 

The representatives of HDZ and SDS instantly started
establishing nationalistic para-states, the so-called Herzeg
Bosnia and the so-called Republika Srpska. The
representatives of SDA -- specially the President of SDA who
behaved as a national (ethnic) leader -- instead of
performing his function of the President of the Presidency
of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- negotiated
about ethnic division of Bosnia and Herzegovina on behalf of
the government, this acting against the Constitution and the
will of citizens expressed during the Referendum. Their
objective was the establishment of a small national state of
Bosniaks. They created their personnel policy to suit this
goal and they carried it out in every segment of government
and other institutions. We strongly oppose this policy. We
also strongly oppose the tendency of preventing all those
who organized the resistance and joined it at the very
beginning from participating in the work of all government
institutions on all  levels.  Our political program is
especially against excluding those individuals from active
participation in the Army and their replacement by
compromised individuals who participated in preparations of
the aggression or even participated in the aggression
against Bosnia and Herzegovina.




8.
By establishing Republika Srpska on 49 percent of the
territory belonging to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
the Washington Agreement and the Dayton Accords legalized
the territorial sovereignty of Bosnian Serbs. Irregular
elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 1996
have further reaffirmed this.  The Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina was established on the remaining territory. The
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is still not
functioning because nationalists continue with their
struggle for political and territorial domination. This is
why the refugees are not returning to their homes. Bosniak
Moslems, who are the majority ethnic group live on merely
22.4 percent of the territory, while before the war they
lived on 94 percent of the territory of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. This clearly demonstrates that extermination
threatens Bosniak Moslems and that the aggressor's objective
continues to be the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina
between Serbia and Croatia. In reality this represents  the
realization of the Tudjman-Milosevic Agreement from
Karadjordjevo. Consequently, they have established Greater
Serbia and Greater Croatia on the account of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. In the period to come, their intentions will be
to legalize this situation and to obtain international
recognition for it.               

9.
The current authorities (the ruling party) participated in
the division of Bosnia Herzegovina during international
peace negotiations. Division of Bosnia was realized through
several plans: Cutillero plan from Lisbon, Vance-Owen plan
and Owen-Stoltenberg's plan from Geneva, the Washington
agreement and the Dayton Peace Accords. Through these
agreements the authorities (the ruling party) have agreed to
the ethnic division of the country, recognizing territorial
sovereignty of parts of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This is contradictory to  historical and state organization
of Bosnia and Herzegovina that has a thousand-year-old
tradition. 

With these activities the current authorities (the ruling
party) have betrayed the interests of Bosnian people who
voted for an independent, sovereign and undivided Republic
of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992 Referendum. It was
this will of Bosnian citizens that was of crucial importance
for the international recognition of Bosnia Herzegovina in
the United Nations and the European Community. This also had
an impact on the positions taken by the Badenter Committee
and the conclusions from the First London Conference that
reflected strong support for the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the state of Bosnia Herzegovina.

10.
After the Dayton Agreement the line of separation was
established between the two so-called entities: the
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska.
The line ethnic separation within the Federation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina -- which was established after the
Washington Agreement -- continued to exist. In reality
three state communities exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
with their own armies, legislative, executive and judiciary
powers. Before the eyes of the world these 'states'
pretend to be democratic, while in reality these are
backward, totalitarian regimes that control all aspects of
life in their communities with the assistance of secret
police forces on their respective territories.

11.
In our attempts to prevent the disintegration of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and its final ethnic division that would lead to
extermination of the Bosnian people, we have established the
Patriotic League of Bosnia Herzegovina. The goal of this
political party is to address all the patriotic forces from
Bosnia Herzegovina, regardless of their political and
religious affiliation, through its political program. The
mutual objective of all these forces is the preservation of
an undivided, sovereign and democratic state of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, within its internationally recognized borders.

12.
Having in mind the political reality that prevails in Bosnia
Herzegovina and the intentions of the neighboring countries,
we believe that conducting the reintegration of the
territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina within its
internationally recognized borders is necessary.  This would
lead to the reconstruction of the sovereign and undivided
country, established on the principles of parliamentary
civic democracy, the legal state community that has its
historical continuity of a thousand years.

If Washington Agreement and the Dayton Peace Accords are not
fully carried out, they should both be proclaimed
ineffectual. At the same time, the decision of the Supreme
Court of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina about the
prohibition of the terrorist SDS should be carried out.
Also, the recognition of Republika Srpska and the entities
should be withdrawn and a new international conference on
the internal organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, within
its internationally recognized borders, should be organized.
The organization should be based on the political
principles, instead of ethnic ones, with respect for all
democratic traditions and traditions of the modern and free
world.

13. 
Due to overall uncertainty in which we live the Patriotic
Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will periodically give
political DECLARATIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA.







III

Character of the War from 1992 to 1995 

14.
The current government has significantly contributed to
changing the assessment of the character of the war in
Bosnia and Herzegovina.  It did not respect the will of
Bosnian citizens expressed during the Referendum in 1992,
when they voted for the sovereign and independent country.
Their activities represented lack of compliance with the
position of the Badenter Committee and the conclusions of
the First London conference. In addition, the current
government agreed to negotiations on ethnic basis
with the leadership of the Ustasha and Chetnik rebels that
the neighboring countries (which are the true aggressors)
generously helped. Thus, the country that they exposed to
double aggression, became "one of the sides in the
conflict."  The continuation of negotiations based on ethnic
principles and acceptance of the Bolshevik-Stalinist
terminology of "constituent peoples"  -- the term banned in
all the countries of former Yugoslavia, except in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, as soon as the new governments were elected
during democratic elections -- resulted in the fact that the
current government and its diplomatic representatives
concluded and signed all the documents offered by the
international community. Clearly, that represented the
acceptance of the ethnic division of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
contrary to the existing Constitution and the pledge of the
soldiers who fought for defense and liberation of the
country.


15.
During the war Bosnia and Herzegovina lost about 12.5
percent of its population.  About 2 500 000 citizens were
expelled. In other words, about 52 percent of the population
is not living in the country.  Because of the war there are
many invalids and those who became ill, so the issue of the
demographic quality arises, along with the question of
demographic potential in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Only an
accurate definition of the character of the war in Bosnia
Herzegovina and in former Yugoslavia can determine the
future of  peace.

16.
The war from 1992 to 1995 is estimated as imperialistic and
a war of conquest. The neighboring countries carried it out
against the internationally recognized state of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The objective was conquering of the
territories. They have committed organized genocide and
culturocide against Bosniaks in their cities and villages,
with the objective of creating nationally clean territories.

The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina supports the
initiatives to investigate the  character of war in Bosnia
and Herzegovina that lasted from 1992 to 1995. An objective
assessment of the war should include all aspects:  the
causes and consequences, the range of destruction, thefts
and victims and the extent of the genocide, carried out in
the course of establishing ethnically clean territories and
national para states on the territory of Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
 
	17. 
Although most of our members and supporters participated in
the defense and liberation war from 1992 to 1995, we believe
that nothing except destruction and terrible tragedies can
be achieved by war. We therefore support the solution of all
conflicts by  means of the constructive and tolerant
dialogue.  We believe in the power of arguments and not in
the argument of arms. We are not negotiating on an ethnic
basis.


IV

War Damages


18.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina believes that
the aggressors should pay the war damages. The war damages
should be paid before the process of the succession of the
property of former Yugoslavia is completed according to the
decision of the International Court of Justice. The
representatives of the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina
have no right to give up this decision or to change it --
especially not because of fulfilling their own day to day
political interests.


V

War Crimes 

19.
An objective assessment of the character of the war in
Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 will  determine who
carried out the aggression. Their role in war destruction,
individual responsibility for war crimes against the people
of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be determined, as well as the
responsibility for the secession of the territory of
internationally recognized state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

           20.
           All those accused of the war crimes must be
           extradited to the International Tribune for War
           Crimes in the Hague, regardless of the fact that
           they possibly appeared before local courts. The
           local courts are in the function of the current
           authorities (ruling parties) and  are therefore
           not objective.

21.
We will persist in demands to determine the responsibility
of the Bosnian side as well for the crimes committed against
the people of Srebrenica, Zepa, Kozarac, Prijedor, Foca and
other places in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

22.
 All war crimes in case they were committed by the members
 of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, must be fully
 investigated to determine the responsibility for them. No
 crime can be justified, and in our situation every
 committed crime helps the aggressor because it contributes
 to equalizing the aggressor and the victim, reducing the
 legal Bosnian government to "one of the sides in war."

VI

Return of Refugees 

23.
The expulsion of Bosniaks - Moslems from the territories of
Bosnia and Herzegovina controlled by SDS and HDZ continues
even after signing of the Washington Agreement and the
Dayton Accords.  We resolutely demand from all the parties
that signed the agreements to put an end to expulsions and
to immediately secure freedom of movement and conditions for
returning of all expelled and displaced citizens of Bosnia
and Herzegovina to their homes, their land and houses.
Private ownership of displaced and expelled persons cannot
be proclaimed as abandoned, or be given for use to anyone.

24.
The return of expelled persons and refugees to Bosnia and
Herzegovina is not a one way process. Therefore, Serb
refugees from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
expelled Serbs from the Republic of Croatia should go back
to their houses and property, so that the citizens of Bosnia
and Herzegovina can safely return to their country.
Expelled Serbs from the Republic of Croatia should be
granted the status of refugees and with the assistance of
the international community their  (humanitarian) existence
should be secured until their return to their homes.

25.
Return of refugees must be previously prepared, economically
secured and totally safe. We oppose the policy of partial
return because  it represents ethnic cleansing of
territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

VII

Government

26.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support
the principle that all the government representatives on all
the levels, as well as its diplomatic representatives, must
have moral character and  be genuine protectors of the state
of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

27.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support
the  democratic transformation of the government system in
Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to establish a united
government on the entire territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and for the Bosnian Army to have its positions on the state
borders.  Our objective is to achieve this by establishing a
political system of parliamentary democracy, based on
democratically constituted government, according to the law.
This government will guarantee rights and freedoms for all
citizens according to the Constitution and international
norms and regulations.  It is our objective to see that in
our government institution there is clear division of
legislative, executive and judiciary powers. We also
recognize the importance of establishing an efficient
government administration,  providing control of the work of
government institutions and of all those  performing public
functions. We also believe that it is necessary to provide
free access to the records about the property of all
government and party officials.  If the Dayton Agreement is
not fully implemented, we  will consider it ineffectual.

28.
The reintegration of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is
the patriotic task of all the members of the Patriotic
Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the first stage this
objective will be achieved through full implementation of
the Dayton Agreement. The next stage should concentrate on
establishment of the state of Bosnian people, which will be
formed according to democratic principles and the rule of
law. This government will guarantee rights to each
individual as an equal citizen and secure social security
and living standards worthy of human beings.

29.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will persist
in its demands that Bosnia and Herzegovina should truly
become the state of Bosnian people and that citizens are
granted the right to obtain the citizenship of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, regardless of where they live, in the country
or in diaspora. In its activities the Patriotic Party of
Bosnia and Herzegovina will especially pay attention to
Bosnian citizens who live in the countries that emerged
after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia.  In other
European countries and in America, especially in Turkey,
the Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will work on
establishing emigrant communities. The Patriotic Party of
Bosnia and Herzegovina will encourage their return to Bosnia
and Herzegovina as well as their investments in the
reconstruction of the country  devastated by the war. We
will also support  exemption from customs of all those
importing technologies and equipment for  production during
the period of ten years. From our point of view this period
for other foreigners should be five years.
 
VIII

Defense

30.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support
the principle of self reliance in all the segments of
defense, both in the development and production of defense
technologies.

31.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support
total  professionalization of military forces, which can
develop a comprehensive national defense system, deploying
all available potentials in case of aggression.

32.
The experience from the defense and liberation war in Bosnia
and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 proved that the existing
potentials were not used to the full extent and that the
defense of the country was only the duty of workers and
peasants, while the privileged ones on all levels avoided
these tasks. From municipality to national level, they were
hiding  behind various 'logistical' operations and in
diplomatic and consular offices.

33.
The army of Bosnia and Herzegovina must be depoliticized,
nonideological and developed on Bosnian tradition, with the
major task of defending the country from outside enemies.
The army must be composed of all Bosnian nationalities. We
reject the legalization of military units established by
political parties, as well as the commands and leadership
established on temporarily ethnically divided territory of
the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.




IX

Police

34.
The police of Bosnia and Herzegovina must be professional
and trained to carry out its duties and responsibilities,
both regular and special, in providing the security of
citizens and their property. It must be depoliticized,
nonideological	and composed of all the nationalities of
Bosnia and Herzegovina.  We reject the legalization of the
police  established by political parties established on
temporarily ethnically divided territory of the state of
Bosnia and Herzegovina.


X

Donations

35.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support
and work on conducting  financial control and review of ways
in which  the donations were spent, those received during
the war for defense of the country as well as those received
after the establishment of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We know that some of the donations were not recorded, that
some of the funds were not used for the designated purposes
and that some of them were even appropriated.

36.
We will demand that all the donations that are in personal
or party  possession should be put under the financial
control of the government institutions of Bosnia and
Herzegovina.

XI

Transition

37.
Market economy based on competition and pluralism of
ownership can be successfully created only in the conditions
that will result from carrying out the transition of the
current state owned property to private and public owned
property.  The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
will support a model of transition that will not allow any
abuses by individuals and groups in power aimed at
increasing their personal wealth.  The results of the
transition and its success will determine if the country
will overcome the war crisis created by the destruction of
material potentials of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore,
the process of transition cannot be disorganized. It must be
based on political decisions that will be followed by the
adoption of adequate laws and regulations, which will
provide mechanisms for government control.

38.
During the transformation of state property into other forms
of ownership we will support the principle that only those
who defended this property, the participants of the defense
and liberation struggle during the war from 1992 to 1995,
should have privileges as well as working population that
contributes to prosperity.

39.
The process of transformation of state owned property to
other forms of ownership can start only after all the
displaced persons and refugees return to their homes, flats
and to their land. Otherwise, ethnic division of the
country will be legalized through ownership relations and
displaced persons and refugees will be deprived of their
property and results of their previous work.

40.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will promote
the principle that the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina
who lost all their property should be justly compensated by
the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

41.
We will support full protection of private ownership,
denationalization of private property, market economy,
market competition and private initiative. Only in this way
it will be possible to increase investments and create more
job opportunities.

XII

Entrepreneurial Economy 

42.
Bosnia and Herzegovina needs an entrepreneurial economic
system in which innovations and entrepreneurial ideas are
present in continuity and are regarded as normal activities.
In order to achieve this objective it is necessary first to
conduct the process of transformation of ownership in all
segments of the society.

43.
The most difficult issue in the entrepreneurial system of
economy is to determine what cannot function. We believe
that among other things the following cannot function:
* Huge and inefficient executive institutions of the
government 
* Inefficient systems of social and health security
* Inefficient institutions of public and utility services
* Poorly trained, corrupted and huge administration
* The rule of mediocrity

44.
The entrepreneurial system of economy should introduce
social innovations such as:

* The policy of more rapid policy of employment through
opening of new companies and creating new job opportunities;
* Organized and systematic abandoning of social policies
that are not functioning well and are inefficient;
* Introduction of taxing policy that will abandon the
practice of "stripping naked" of tax payers. Instead a
system that will encourage investments and development
should be introduced; 
* An adequate tax system should be introduced. This system
should  solve problems of cash flow in companies
* Companies engaged in development should be exempted from
tax paying as well as new companies in the first three years
of work, and thus given a chance to accumulate more capital
and promote faster employment;
* New business projects and new companies should be
protected from various pressures coming from government
administration, which are carried out through various
regulation, restrictions and reports;

45.
To start with creation of the entrepreneurial system of
economy it is necessary to start developing  local
entrepreneurial initiatives. In other words, small and
middle size companies should be encouraged. Since behind
every successful enterprise or company there is a successful
entrepreneurial group, it is important to start developing
great number of efficient and successful entrepreneurs on
all local levels. The next step is to connect them into
networks on regional and national level.

46.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will establish
centers for development of entrepreneurial initiatives in
every municipality. The main objective of these centers will
be to help development of new private companies of different
types, including those that are based on complex production
technologies to those engaged in production based on well
known and widely used methods.  By means of objective
communication and establishing links with the environment in
which they function, the centers will give support for the
demands of entrepreneurs.  Letting the local businesspeople
and the political community learn of services provided by
these centers will be very important. Providing information
about the opportunities that the centers will be offering
(new potential entrepreneurs, technical experts,
manufactures, etc.) for the realization of business ideas
will be especially important.

47.
Centers for the development of entrepreneurial initiatives
usually function in one location (this is not a rule) and
provide the following services to entrepreneurs:

* Preparation of business studies
* Elaboration of specific projects
* Assistance in providing essential capital
* Assistance in providing of premises
* Assistance with registration
* Financial and book keeping services
* Guidance about business operations, technologies,
regulations, personnel issues, organizational matters
* Management training

48.
Experience shows that these centers achieve better results
if they are connected into regional networks then when
operating on their own. Well connected regional networks of
entrepreneurial centers with networks of formal and informal
advisors will enable exchange of knowledge and experience
between companies and serve as the most important basis of
success for each center.

49.
An individual in an entrepreneurial system of economy, in
the system that we support, will take the responsibility for
his own social security, for permanent education and
learning, in other words for his development and career.

50.
As part of general principles of entrepreneurial strategy we
demand that the government should provide basic financial
and material conditions for demobilized soldiers and
invalids for their training and starting of their own
business activities. If a demobilized soldier or an invalid
does want to enter his own business (because he has no
qualifications or skills) the government is responsible for
finding him a job.






XII

Education

51.
The Party will support the reform of the entire educational
system, into which entrepreneurial education should be
introduced.  Highly developed technologies assume higher
level of intellectual work.  Thus, the working potential is
the most valuable economic and social asset of the society.
The objective of education should be to provide training for
life and work. The system of education should emphasize
general education since many classic professions will
transform along with the technological revolution. Knowledge
is the biggest asset. Therefore, doing everything possible
to provide adequate education and employment of our talented
citizens is necessary.

52.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will also
focus on education of young generations in the spirit of
democracy, political culture and general values of the
mankind. In order to achieve this it is necessary to include
civic education in the educational system, with all
necessary civilizational heritage necessary for the twenty
first century.

53.
We demand that children of soldiers who died in the war, war
orphans and the children of invalids of the liberation war
from 1992 to 1995 should be granted free of change education
or scholarships.

XIV

Religion 

54.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has more than a thousand
years old tradition of multi denomination, religious
communities should be depoliticized and independent and the
government must provide condition for their free  activities
in their promotion of universal values of truth, justice and
other ethic values. Freedom of religious expression in the
spheres of spiritual, educational and social activities only
reaffirms religion as the highest cultural and social value.
Religion is an issue of personal decision of every
individual. We strongly oppose the use of religion for
political purposes.


55.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina demands that
the  legality of the Mesihat (Office of the religious
leadership in the Islamic community) of the Islamic
Community of Bosnia Herzegovina should be returned, which
was abolished in 1993 by illegal methods. The Mesihat should
serve as the basis for organizing democratic elections in
the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

56.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support
the  constitution of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and
Herzegovina as  an Islamic  community of Bosniaks. We will
support democratic  elections on all the levels of the
Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We regard the
current leadership of the Islamic Community as illegal and
temporary.

XV

Vakufs and Similar Contributions

Note: Vakuf is a foundation created by  charity
contributions in the Islamic Community used for building and
supporting of mosques, schools, libraries, orphanages and
other institutions and activities of public interest.

57.
We will support establishment of public records of all
donated assets and funds. The records should be created
based on preserved Vakufnama (Vakufnama: documents about
contributions) and similar testaments of donors. Also,
reviewing of reports given by the Mutevelijas (Mutevelija:
administrators of these foundations) who were in charge of
those foundations is necessary.  Where the original purpose
of the Vakufs is not clear, due to lack of original
documents, we will insist that the funds be used for
scholarships for children of the soldiers that died during
the war, for children of wounded soldiers and for those
whose parents have very low incomes. Special set of
regulations should be drafted, having in mind the will
expressed in the Vakufnamas or similar testaments.

58.
It is our position that the religious organizations should
not further administrate these funds since they were given
for  administration to religious institution at the time
when certain nationalities were not organized and when
religious institutions were substituting the national ones.
Even the administration was conducted under the control of
Serijat (Serijat: Islamic religious law) courts  and special
Vakuf assemblies, in fact by special Vakuf directorates,
which was under the control of the Ministry of Justice of
that time. We need the kind of organization that will secure
complete  and reliable records and fair respect of the will
of donors and contributors, an institution organized like
the Vakuf Directorate, which should be included in  the
government of Bosnia and Herzegovina and under the control
of Parliament.

XVI

Pensioners

59.
In the filed of pensions and invalid insurance the Patriotic
Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support the following:

* Pensions earned during working period and are guaranteed
should be paid out in the amount of their realistic value as
a right obtained during  working service. The pensions
should be paid within the time frame outlined by the laws
and regulations and in the amounts provisioned by the laws
and regulations;
* Pensions are personal, material right that the law
guarantees and therefore cannot be reduced or cut;
* Pensions are results of work and therefore the destiny of
pensions and wages is the same and the pensions should be in
function of wages;
* Proclaimed right to legal security must be implemented in
the field of pension insurance as well;
* Illegally denied pensions must be paid out in the amounts
that the law guarantees, because everything withheld from
the pensioners represents appropriation  that is against the
law; 
* We believe that the restrictions on the growth of pensions
should be abolished as well as the restrictions of the
rights of pensioners since this is not according to legal
security, moral and humanity and because of the very
difficult position of pensioners;

The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will support
all the activities that will contribute to return of all the
appropriated funds from the pensions and invalid allowances,
from funds for housing construction for pensioners and form
their recreation funds. These funds should be returned in
the shortest possible time.

As part of these activities the Patriotic Party of Bosnia
and Herzegovina will work on returning of homes for old
persons in Neum, Mostar, Sarajevo, Zenica, Tuzla, Banjaluka
and other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The funds
realized through privatization of these houses and
pensioners housing space must be returned the pension funds.
This should include centers for medical care for pensioners
in Fojnica, Teslic, Ilidza, Bosanska Dubica and other places
in Bosnia Herzegovina that were appropriated.

XVII

Military Saving Bankbooks 

60.
We demand that the situation about the military saving
bankbooks for the soldiers should be resolved, since the
soldiers of the liberation and defense war were cheated. The
situation is even worse since the soldiers did not ask for
the saving bankbooks. During the war they only asked for
food parcels for their families. Instead of that, at the end
of the war they have received worthless foreign currency
saving bankbooks. Those who were in charge of the fraud
operations called "foreign currency savings" were well aware
of the fact that there was no realistic basis of paying out
these sums of money since the Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
is not authorized to cover this value. This is under the
authority of the entities, and the Federation after its
establishment can but may decide not to accept these
"foreign currency  savings."

On the behalf of all the soldiers we demand that all those
who created and carried out this fraud should be held
responsible, since they  manipulated the soldiers and their
families, hoping to win another "great victory" in the 1996
elections.

XVII

Media

61.
The Patriotic part of Bosnia and Herzegovina will seriously
consider freedom of press and broadcast media, which
represent the basis of a democratic society. Freedom of
press is one of the mechanisms that enables citizens to
participate in the work of the government and provides
control over it, preventing the abuse of authority.

XIX

Sandzak 

62.
Historic facts prove that the territory of what is today
known as Sandzak was part of medieval Bosnian state -- from
the time of the rule of the first Bosnian King, Tvrtko
Kotromanic. After the Ottomans established their rule, these
territories were part of Bosnian Sandzak, Ejalet and Vilajet
(Sandzak, Ejalet and Vilajet: different administrative and
territorial units in the Ottoman Empire).    After the
Berlin Congress, held in 1878, which decided against the
will of Bosnian people, the territory  was separated as the
seventh province and remained under the rule of the Ottoman
Sultan. Through tacit and controversial agreements between
the Ottomans and the Serbs this province was added to Serbia
and by the end of 1992 the Serb Army conquered it and
included it as part of its country.
Bosnian people from Sandzak, as part of Bosnian people and
Bosnian state for more than a thousand years had the same
destiny as Bosnians in Bosnia, constantly giving proofs of
loyalty to their country Bosnia. During the movement of
Bosniaks for their autonomy in 1831, lead by Captain Husein
Gradascevic, great number of people from Sandzak joined this
struggle. After the Berlin Conference in 1878 many
inhabitants from Sandzak joined their fellowmen in their
resistance against those who were occupying their country.
Later, in 1882 many of them joined the uprising of Bosnians
and Herzegovinians  for the liberation of the country.  In
the events that followed 30.000 volunteers from Sandzak
expressed their readies to come to Bosnia and help in the
struggle against the annexation of Bosnia in 1908.

Expressing the will of Bosnian people the representatives of
all Sandzak cities adopted the resolution during the Sjenica
Conference in 1917 in which they confirmed the undoubted
desire to become part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from which
they were illegally and against their will separated because
of bargains between the great powers. Through the
organization called "Gajret" similar resolutions were
adopted before the breakout of the Second World War, as well
as in 1941. During the Second World War the Antifascist
Council of Sandzak expressed its desire for the autonomy of
Sandzak.

The participation of the part of Bosnian people originally
from Sandzak in the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina during
the aggression from 1992 to 1995 was of crucial importance
for the survival of the Bosnian state and of Bosniak people.
History will undoubtedly prove this.

During all the bloodshedding and unjust wars against the
Bosnian state and Bosniak people, the homes of Bosniaks in
Sandzak were always open for those who were expelled from
their homes in Bosnian provinces.  In 1878 they received
more then 150,000 refugees in these homes. Many of them
continued their trip from Sandzak, while considerable number
remained to live there. The same situation was repeated
during the cruel wars from 1941 to 1945 and from 1992 to
1995.

During all this time in Sandzak, as in other provinces of
Bosnia, the spirit of life together and tolerance toward
different ethnic groups, different cultures and religions
was nourished. Thus, a considerable number of Serb and
Montenegro people fought with Bosniaks for the autonomy of
Sandzak.

64.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina believes that
in its struggle for power the ruling party has abused the
feelings and desires of the Bosnian people living in
Sandzak, proclaiming itself as the only  representative and
defender of the interests of all the Bosniak people, leading
the Bosniaks in Sandzak to an unbearable situation.  After
the Dayton Agreement Sandzak was left at the mercy of Serbia
and Montenegro, in other words it is regarded as an internal
problem of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

65.
Having in mind the objective historical facts and according
to current international agreements and resolutions of the
Security Council and  the United Nations Resolution about
human rights and respecting the principle of not altering
borders, the Patriotic Party of Bosnia Herzegovina will
support the resolution of the Sandzak issue as an autonomous
province within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where
they will grant Bosnian people all national, cultural and
religious freedoms and rights. Bosnia and Herzegovina will
be regarded as the original state of Sandzak people and they
will achieve their rights in Bosnia, in the same way Bosnian
Serbs and Bosnian Croats do so in Serbia and Croatia
respectively.

66.
We strongly oppose attempts of certain parts of the
international community to equalize Bosnian people expelled
from Sandzak with expelled Croat Serbs. Bosniaks left
Sandzak and went to third countries because of terrorism,
while the Serbs from Croatia, after armed rebellion against
Croatia as their own state, came to Bosnia as aggressors.


XX 

International Relations

67.
Bosnia and Herzegovina should be developing its relations,
economic development and defense strategy as part of global
political and economic relations within free and democratic
associations of the world, especially as part of South East
Europe.  Relations with neighboring countries should be
developed only after precise definition of the dissolution
of former Yugoslavia and after determining the character of
the war on these territories. Since  Bosnia and Herzegovina
was the victim of aggression it should have privileged
position during the process of  estimating of the war
damages that the aggressors must compensate.  We will
support the principle of not altering the borders, the
principle of equality and non interference in internal
issues.

XXI 

Inter Party Cooperation 

68.
The Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina will develop
cooperation with  democratic political parties from the
country and abroad and support the establishment of the
Patriotic Front that should develop into a movement of all
patriotic forces, which will struggle for the reintegration
of the entire territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina to
establish an integrated political system, all with the
objective of establishing  Bosnia and Herzegovina as a
sovereign and undivided state, within internationally
recognized borders.

Only this policy can save the Bosnian people from
destruction, which threatens them because of the
nationalistic ideologies of the neighboring countries, which
desire to divide  Bosnia and Herzegovina.  The neighboring
countries declare that they respect internationally
recognized borders of our country, while at the same time in
practice they use the excuse of protecting their minorities
to achieve the goal of secession.  

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