"Our relations are good and have an ascending line," said President Stjepan Mesic, who headed the Croatian delegation.
He said the talks also revolved around Bosnia and Herzegovina's internal affairs because the Dayton peace agreement, which ended the war in 1995, did not bring about lasting solutions.
"Croatia welcomes all solutions which direct Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the European model," said Mesic, underlining that the two countries shared a common European orientation.
Mesic said he personally endorsed everything that helped Bosnia function as a state, but he maintained that the ongoing constitutional reform should protect the interests of Bosnia's three constituent peoples and provide mechanisms which should preclude a blockade of the second stage of the reform.
"I voiced hope that attention would be paid to preventing a blockade or the cementing of relations which might later harm Bosnia and Herzegovina's European orientation," said Mesic.
He underlined that cooperation with neighbours was an inseparable part of Croatia's European orientation and that Croatia wanted full agreement to be reached on all decisions which concerned other states.
"It would not be good if Croatia invested big funds in a project without relations having been previously agreed," Mesic said, adding that it was expected of the two countries' governments to pay due attention to all outstanding issues.
The chairman of Bosnia's Presidency, Sulejman Tihic, said the status of the southern Croatian seaport of Ploce should be settled so as to make it useful to Bosnia as well as all other countries which would gravitate to Ploce via the future road corridor Vc.
Tihic confirmed that an agreement was being drafted to close this decade-old issue.
Speaking of the construction of a bridge from the mainland to the peninsula of Peljesac, also in southern Croatia, Tihic said the joint position was that decisions should not be rushed and that experts should provide a solution which would satisfy both sides' interests. "The beginning or continuation of works should wait until then."
Tihic said Croatia and Bosnia were agreed that the decision which would be reached at Montenegro's referendum on independence should be respected, and that the issue of Kosovo's status should be treated as an issue between Belgrade and Pristina, provided that national minorities' rights were respected.
Mesic and Tihic said they expected the Croatian-Bosnian Cooperation Council to be more effective in the future and that this should also go for the two countries' relations with Serbia and Montenegro.
To that end, Dubrovnik is expected to host a meeting between the three states' presidents and prime ministers in the next few months, depending on the referendum in Montenegro.
"We feel that our relations have progressed so much that this form of inter-state council is no longer appropriate," said Tihic, suggesting that in the future this body would likely have a primarily advisory role.