The President of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic, said yesterday after the meeting with the Chairperson of the BiH Presidency, ZeljkaCvijanovic, that Zeljko Komsic “is not a representative of the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), who should have their own legitimate representative.”
Milanovic stated that the intervention of High Representative Christian Schmidt on election night did not solve the problem of Croats, which is the illegitimacy of their representation in the BiH Presidency.
“The Dayton Agreement is the foundation of BiH and only evil can arise if it is tampered with,” said Milanovic after meeting with the Chairperson of the Presidency of BiH, Zeljka Cvijanovic.
The Croatian president said that the meeting with Cvijanoviccomes at the “right time”.
“I think it is the right time and the right way. The relations with the previous presidency were not ideal during my term. It is time to open a new chapter. BiH as we see it, as I see it, and it is a subject of international law based on Dayton. It is the foundation of BiH. It is in the Croatian interest not to touch it. If it is touched, only evil can come out of it. This is not a perfect situation. For me, the most important topic is stability in the region, peace, predictability, European the path of BiH, if that country wants it, and I see that it wants it. And last, but not least, the position of the Croats, one of the three constitutive nations in BiH, and not as some minorities. Although the minorities in Croatia have a uniquely good status. So let it be,” he said, reports HRT.
He emphasized that the status of Croats in BiH is expected to be dignified, equal to the status of Bosniaks and Serbs.
“I am ready to talk about this with anyone who shows a minimum of common sense and good intentions, and I see a little more common sense and good will in Mrs. Cvijanovic and her political circle in BiH. Thank you once again and welcome to Croatia,” Milanovic said, Klix.ba reports.
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