Minister Primorac is on a two-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he will visit educational, cultural and medical institutions that receive financial assistance from the Croatian government.
He held talks with an auxiliary Bosnian bishop, Msgr. Pero Sudar, the Education Minister of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zijad Pasic, and Safet Halilovic, whose ministry coordinates education affairs on the state level.
Primorac told reporters he had seen for himself during the talks that there were no major problems in the functioning of primary and secondary education and that Bosnian Croat representatives had no objections in that regard.
However, the issue which remains open is the adoption of a state law on higher education, which is expected to create conditions for the implementation of the Bologna Declaration, which Bosnia-Herzegovina has joined.
Halilovic said a new bill on higher education is expected to be sent to parliament in November, while Primorac said that he had received assurances that the law would not be detrimental to any of the country's peoples and that it would not be adopted under political pressure.
Bosnian Croat officials rejected the initial bill on higher education, which the Bosnian Constitutional Court found to threaten the vital interests of the Croat people.
The two ministers said that their ministries would initiate cooperation between their respective expert groups to define concrete forms of cooperation.
Primorac recalled that Croatia had been setting aside considerable funds for Croat institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and this year alone it provided some 12 million kuna.
Annual assistance to Bosnian Croat cultural and educational projects amounts to some 25 million kuna, and another 70 million is set aside for the financing of educational institutions and hospitals.