Speaking at the news conference "Solidarity and Unity with the Church and People in Bosnia-Herzegovina" in Zagreb on Friday, Prime Minister Sanader said that "Croats are a people that has preserved Bosnia-Herzegovina".
He went on to say that Bosnian Croats were entitled to full renown in that country.
"We shall do all we can politically and morally to help them achieve it," Sanader said adding that the two remaining open issues in southeastern Europe were the issue of Kosovo and constitutional changes in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina should achieve an equal status to that of Bosniaks (Muslims) and Serbs given that without Croats there would be no Bosnia-Herzegovina, he said.
The Croatian PM said that Bosnia-Herzegovina should be a viable country, adding that with the admission to the European Union, borders dividing us now would disappear.
The president of the Croatian Bishops' Conference, Zagreb Archbishop Josip Bozanic recalled that solidarity and unity of Croatia's citizens and the Catholic Church with the Croat people and the Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina had been intensive since early 1990s and the then war.
In the war help was offered to people regardless of ethnic of religious origin, the primate of the Croatian Catholic Church said.
Bozanic holds that the Catholic Church should raise the awareness in Croatia of hard times in which Catholics in Bosnia are living now.
The Primate of the Catholic Church in Bosnia, Sarajevo Archbishop Cardinal Vinko Puljic, thanked Croatia for the assistance.
In this way we are building the unity, Puljic said adding that if Europe wanted to be united, then Catholics in the two countries should not fear of a new unity respecting the state borders.
The Croatian Government has donated one million kuna in the campaign aimed at raising funds for Bosnian Croats.