The meeting highlighted the need to encourage the return of a larger number of Croats to the area. It was said that 12,500 Croats had lived in the municipality of Konjic before the war and that only about 2,000 remained.
Kalmeta said that the Croatian government would allocate 200,000 kuna (about 26,500 euros) in aid for the construction of a Croatian Cultural Centre in Konjic.
Don Ledic said that the Croatian government had also pledged to donate 100,000 kuna for the reconstruction of a parish church in Solakova Kula near Konjic, which is regarded as an important cultural monument.
Ledic thanked Kalmeta for the 500,000 kuna the Croatian government had provided last year for the reconstruction of the church, library, bridge and roads in the nearby village of Kostajnica.
Kalmeta visited the Andjelic family in Kostajnica, whose three members were brutally murdered by Bosnian Muslim Moamer Topalovic on Christmas Eve in 2002.
Topalovic was sentenced by a court in the southern city of Mostar to 35 years in jail after his appeal was rejected by the Bosnian Federation's Supreme Court. The indictment said that Topalovic had killed the three Croats out of religious intolerance.