“This country deserves progress and peace. And for that, it is necessary to create not only economic and political conditions, but also spiritual, to encourage life at every step, to build peace and unity, to encourage young people to fight for a better future for everyone,” wrote President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in her diary about several days spent in private visit to several cities in Herzegovina.
In the diary that was published by Vecernji List, Grabar-Kitarovic wrote about her visits to Medjugorje, Siroki Brijeg, Mostar, Kupres, Prozor-Rama, Ljubuški, and the meetings that she had in these cities.
“When I confront all that I’ve experienced to tendentiously imposed prejudices that occasionally follow these people and that country in our newspapers, on web portals and elsewhere, the more I feel the need to emphasize that real life – people, nature, culture and everything else, totally differ from them,” wrote the Croatian president.
She emphasized that anyone who serves a public duty in Croatia and BiH is actually debtor to “this country and this people who keep all the treasures of their homeland and the whole country with so much love, while building a new life.”
“I am giving a promise to myself that I will continue to do everything to achieve full equality of Croats in BiH. They deserve it not only as its constitutive and historically original people, but as people who gave an exceptional contribution to its defense and survival in the 90’s, and today they are a firm support to the legitimate Euro-Atlantic aspirations of BiH. If there was the will of the so-called centers of power, BiH should already be a member of NATO and the EU. Croatia will strongly support it on that path, because BiH is more than a neighbor to us. Everyone who opens the heart and mind and comes here will realize that Croatia and BiH are close, sisterly countries, and they rely on each other in many ways,” concluded Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in her diary about the private visit to BiH.
(Source: klix.ba)
