A decision to that effect was made in Sarajevo on Wednesday by a task force set up by the Bosnian government to consider objections to the draft agreement that was to have been initialled by prime ministers Ivo Sanader of Croatia and Adnan Terzic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zagreb on Thursday.
Bosnian Deputy Justice Minister Niko Grubisic told reporters the Serb side demanded that the agreement regulate issues which were not covered by an annexe to the agreement on the succession of property of the former Yugoslavia which was the basis of the Croatian-Bosnian agreement on property rights relations.
Bosnian Serbs also object to the fact that the draft agreement stated that Bosnia became a sovereign state on 6 March 1992. The authorities in Banja Luka also object to the model of applying for compensation for or the return of seized motor vehicles.
Bosnian Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Haris Basic, who is also on the task force, said the signing of the agreement was opposed by groups and individuals in possession of others' property.
Sarajevo media said the reason might be the unwillingness of the Bosnian Serb authorities to return Croatian oil company INA's petrol stations in the Serb entity because they generated a lot of money.
Top Bosnian Serb officials today openly took part in the campaign against agreements on property rights relations and the regulation of dual citizenship.
State presidency member Borislav Paravac accused PM Terzic of hasty negotiations and underlined that the agreements should be signed on August 4, "the tenth anniversary of the expulsion of Serbs from Croatia and of Operation Storm, which clearly shows what are the intentions of Terzic and the policy he advocates".
Paravac said that if the agreements were signed, he would use his constitutional powers to seek the protection of vital national interests and contest the validity of the documents.