Miksic, who will replace Friar Simun Sito Coric in this post, was elected by about 90 percent of those who attended the 6th CWC convention, which was held over the weekend in the coastal city of Zadar and which gathered delegates of Croats living in 30 countries.
The new leadership of this nonprofit, nongovernmental and nonparty international organization whose aim is "to unite and network Croatian associations and institutions throughout the world" and "to promote the Croatian heritage world-wide" was presented at a press conference in Zadar on Monday.
The outgoing president of the organisation, Simun Sito Coric, told the press that participants in the Zadar convention had sent a letter of support to Croatian inmates, including Ante Gotovina whom he described as our hero, who were being kept in The Hague by the UN war crimes tribunal.
Coric announced that the CWC would join in the legal battle so as to help Croatian clients who insist that Ljubljanska Banka pay back their savings and money. According to Coric, the CWC engaged a French law firm to file an appeal against Slovenia before the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The CWC will ask the Croatian national parliament to investigate how it was possible that the adjective 'hrvatski (Croatian)' was omitted from a memorial plaque in Bleiburg. The field near the Austrian town of Bleiburg was an execution place where many Croats were killed in the second half of May 1945 while the Yugoslav army returned columns of over 200,000 captured Croats and others from the Austrian border to the then Yugoslavia. Many of them died of exhaustion or were killed in the long marches, later called the Way of the Cross.