Commenting on a meeting of leaders of eight major Bosnian parties, who should convene in Brussels over the weekend to discuss constitutional changes drawn up by international diplomats, the Croatian president said that the Dayton agreement stopped the war in Bosnia and played its role.
The deal however "failed to establish all the state mechanisms in Bosnia-Herzegovina", he told reporters during his regular meeting with citizens on Saturday.
"Many who were destroying Bosnia believed that that (the agreement) was a break and that the international community will become fed up with (Bosnia) and that the policy promoting the division of Bosnia, which was defeated, would again become topical. Bosnia must survive and it cannot be divided," the Croatian head of state said.
According to him, it is now evident that the world cannot connive at attempts to give a part of the Bosnian territory to Serbia, a part to Croatia and that a tiny Muslim state remains living off international aid. That could breed camps with terrorists disgruntled with Bosnia's division and that could become a new Palestine in the next 50-70 year, Mesic said adding that this was something which Europe could not accept.
"It is now necessary to upgrade the Dayton accords so as to shatter illusions about entities becoming states," he said.
Commenting on press reports that the Privredna Banka Zagreb (PBZ), which is in major ownership of an Italian bank, decided to grant loans to members of the Italian minority in Croatia under more favourable terms and conditions, Mesic said all citizens should enjoy equal rights in banks, too,