The Igman Initiative joint statement was signed in Sarajevo on Monday. The statement was offered for signing to Mesic, Serbia and Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic, and Bosnian Presidency member Sulejman Tihic, who attended the Igman Initiative conference. They refused due to disagreements among the Bosnian Presidency's three members regarding the statement's contents, according to an official explanation.
Commenting on yesterday's developments, Mesic dismissed media reports according to which Sarajevo's Igman Initiative was a debacle and said that the initiative did not lose on its importance.
Asked which form of state organisation wold be most suitable for Bosnia-Herzegovina in his opinion -- three entities, four regions or eight regions -- Mesic said the best would be the one accepted by Bosnian citizens.
In an interview for Sarajevo-based Oslobodjenje daily on Tuesday, Mesic said that Bosnia and Croatia did not have problems that could not be solved, stressing that "the issue of the port of Ploce is also soluble" and that everyone would benefit from the construction of a road from Ploce through Bosnia and Croatia to Hungary.
Asked what a recent confession by ICTY indictee Ivica Rajic, that Croatia participated in the aggression against Bosnia, could mean for Croatia, Mesic said the Croatian Parliament had not made a decision under which the Croatian Army could cross the Croatian border and participate in an operation.
"Following parliament's decision, the Croatian president can decide to send the Croatian Army outside Croatia. But no such decision was made. If somebody had been sending individuals or groups or using military potential illegally despite that, he must be brought to justice," Mesic said.
Commenting on a recent trial verdict against writer and journalist Predrag Matvejevic, who was sentenced by a Zagreb court to five months in prison for defamation of writer Mile Pesorda in an article entitled "Our Taleban", Mesic said he was against prosecuting an author for figurative speech.