"It was natural for (Bosnia-Herzegovina) to lower its diplomatic representation in Zagreb to the level of charge d'affaires after the unwarranted refusal by Croatia to approve its candidate as ambassador," Mladen Ivanic told reporters in Banja Luka on Saturday.
He added that the future ambassador "will receive approval from Croatia soon and this problem will be overcome."
For the past five months Bosnia-Herzegovina has been diplomatically represented in Croatia by a charge d'affaires after Zagreb refused to approve Bosnian Serb candidate Branko Kesic as ambassador.
Bosnian and Croatian media warned at the time that Kesic's questionable role during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina could become an obstacle to his ambassadorial appointment. Kesic held a senior position in the Banja Luka Construction Institute at the height of the ethnic cleansing campaign and is seen as at least partly responsible for the destruction of numerous Catholic and Islamic religious sites in the city.