Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola regarding, as he stated, attempts to undermine the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina through statements by Croatian MEP Željana Zovko.
“The recent statement by the Member of the European Parliament, Ms. Željana Zovko, in which she once again interferes in the internal affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina by demanding that the Prime Minister of the neighboring Republic of Croatia, Andrej Plenković, “hand over the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina” is the latest blow to the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and especially its European perspective.
Such positions directly negate the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), especially in relation to the judgment “Prlić et al.”, which established the existence of a joint criminal enterprise aimed at creating mono-ethnic parts of the territory in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under the de facto control of official Zagreb, i.e. the neighboring Republic of Croatia, and today the same goals are being sought to be realized through political means,” said Komšić.
He believes that such positions by certain representatives of the European Parliament deny and reject the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, which established the existence of ethno-territorial discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Such positions of MEPs, he adds, are in complete contradiction with the values and norms of the European Union, as prescribed in the Lisbon Treaty.
Therefore, he requested that the European Parliament, within the framework of appropriate procedures and ethical norms, take a position rejecting and condemning such positions, “which seek to realize the goals of the adjudicated joint criminal enterprise, with the ultimate goal of taking over and usurping the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina by neighboring Croatia,” Komšić’s Cabinet announced.
“As the aforementioned statements cause instability in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we kindly ask that the European Parliament, within the framework of its procedures, take a clear position on the inappropriate and highly destabilizing statements of Ms. Zovko,” Komšić said.
