Plan to Dismantle Croat Ministate OKd

Bosnian Muslim and Croat officials have agreed on a plan to dismantle the Croatian ministate of Herzeg-Bosna, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Kornblum said after talks in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. “The two parties . . . agreed that during the next week they will put together an implementation plan ensuring that . . . they would build a [unified] central institution after the [Sept. 14] election,” Kornblum told reporters. “This will mean disappearance of the Herzeg-Bosna structure.” The existence of Herzeg-Bosna has long been a major thorn in the side of the deeply fractured Muslim-Croat federation. International mediators have been trying to convince separatist Croats to abandon the ministate as a violation of last year’s Dayton, Ohio, peace accord.