"We concluded that parliamentary relations between the two countries are increasingly better and rich. Meetings of parliamentary speakers contribute to the development of good bilateral relations between Bosnia and Croatia," Seks told the press after the meeting.
Raguz, who was on an official visit to Zagreb, agreed that the quality of the relations between the Sabor and the Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly were improving.
He added that Bosnia would like to follow the example of Croatia on the path towards Euro-Atlantic institutions.
The Sabor will give full support to Bosnia's Parliamentary Assembly and we shall agree on concrete forms of cooperation between the two parliaments with an aim of transferring our experience from the road towards the EU and NATO, Seks said.
Seks and Raguz also discussed possible future constitutional changes in Bosnia, with Croatia's support to the amendments so that central state institutions can be strengthened with the full respect for the rights and interests of all the three constituent peoples in Bosnia: Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Croats and Serbs.
Raguz said that after the general elections, set for 1 October, Bosnia would embark on a more serious path towards the changes with the expectations that " a fairer and more functional and European solution for Bosnia-Herzegovina will be reached with the standardisation of both individual rights and the collective rights (of a people)".
Raguz, who is a representative of the Bosnian Croat people, said that Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina were not on the equal footing with the other two peoples regarding their institutionalised position and that this "should be solved through democratic European standards and means".
The two officials also discussed the economic cooperation and efforts to solve outstanding issues such as the conclusion of a cross-border cooperation agreement, property-rights relations and plans for the construction of the Komarno-Peljesac bridge off the only Bosnian coastal town of Neum and the building of infrastructure as part of the pan-European Vc corridor.
Asked to comment on the decision of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina to quash the ruling which a first-instance court made in the case of former Bosnian Croat politician Ante Jelavic, who was sentenced to ten years in jail for embezzlement, Raguz said that this was a matter which the judiciary should deal with, and referred journalists to the court to ask for more information.
Yesterday, the state court revoked the sentence and ordered a retrial for Jelavic, who is believed to have embezzled funds which Croatia sent as assistance to local Croats.