MOSTAR, March 16 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Foreign Minister MladenIvanic has announced he will request that his country's Presidencyintroduce countermeasures against Croatia for exceeding the deadlinefor approving the
accreditation of the Bosnian Ambassador to Zagreb,Branko Kesic, the Sarajevo newspaper Oslobodjenje said on Wednesday,citing several unnamed Foreign Ministry officials.
MOSTAR, March 16 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Foreign Minister
Mladen Ivanic has announced he will request that his country's Presidency
introduce countermeasures against Croatia for exceeding the deadline for
approving the accreditation of the Bosnian Ambassador to Zagreb, Branko Kesic,
the Sarajevo newspaper Oslobodjenje said on Wednesday, citing several unnamed
Foreign Ministry officials. Oslobodjenje says that Ivanic has been
displaying nervousness for some time over the behaviour of the Croatian
government, which has not yet responded to the request filed by the Bosnian
Foreign Ministry 11 weeks ago for the approval of Kesic's accreditation in
Zagreb.
An unwritten deadline for accreditation approval expired at the end of
February, and some Croatian media have reported that Kesic will not be given
the green light because he allegedly participated in an ethnic cleansing
campaign in Banja Luka during the 1990s war when in his capacity as a senior
official in the Banja Luka Construction Institute he signed decisions stripping
Bosnian Muslims and Croats of their tenancy rights, according to
Oslobodjenje.