STATEMENT
We, the participants of the International
Conference on How to Reach Stability in the
Southeast Europe held in Tuzla on 9 and 10 July
1999, as the representatives of the democratic
alternative – groups of non-governmental
organisations and parties of democratic
opposition – from Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia –
Serbia and Montenegro – and Slovenia, have
adopted the following statements:
1. We support the initiative of the
International Community for constitution of the
Pact for Stability in the Southeast Europe, which
can provide the strategy for stability,
transition and cooperation in the region.
2. Referring to the Act 33 of the Draft
Pact for Stability that gives support to the
regional initiatives and organisations and at the
same time continuing our cooperation which has
started during the war, now we have established the
Council of Democratic Alternative for Stability
in the Southeast Europe. It will be based in
Sarajevo. The Council is open for all the akin
actors from the area of the Southeast Europe.
3. We emphasise that it is not possible to
accomplish the fundamental goals of the Pact for
Stability in cooperation only with the existing
governmental authorities in view of experience we
had until now.
Thus therefore, we ask from the Conference
on the Pact in Sarajevo (29 and 30 July) to
ensure in a definitive text of the Pact
conditions and forms of much more explicit and
concrete participation of the democratic
alternative in the implementation of the Pact for
Stability. This will speed up the process of
integration of this region into the European
democratic and civic system.
4. We think that it is necessary to forsee
stronger role of the civic society within
the mechanisms of the Pact. Therefore, we suggest
that the Working Group for Democracy and Human
Rights be renamed into the Working Group for
Democratisation, Civic Society and Human Rights,
specially emphasizing the issues of ethnic and
all other kinds of minorities.
In view of the above statements, the participants
of the Conference consider that the presence of a
delegation from the democratic alternative at the
Conference on the Pact for Stability in Sarajevo
would have a great significance for the
affirmation of the goals of the Pact.
In Tuzla, 10 July, 1999
On behalf of all the participants of the
Conference
Mr Vehid Sehic
Coordinator
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