On the second day of his official visit to Bosnia, Sabor Speaker visited the city administration, the reconstructed Old Bridge, the local university, a clinical hospital, and the aluminium processing plant.
"Croatia will continue offering increased support to the city's institutions such as the University, the medical faculty, the hospital, and the Croatian National Theatre (HNK) as the functioning of these institutions is a key condition for the survival of the Croat people in Mostar and Bosnia," Seks said.
The Croatian official also hailed the process of uniting the city of Mostar.
Commenting on the statute regulating this matter, which was imposed by the international community's High Representative Paddy Ashdown at the start of 2004 and which was particularly criticised by the Croatian Democratic Union of BiH (HDZ BiH), Seks said the statute was "an internal matter of the Office of the High Representative" which exercised its powers.
He went on to say that it was a legitimate right of the HDZ BiH and other political factors in Mostar to try to change through democratic dialogue some of Ashdown's positions on Mostar and adjust them to European standards.
The HDZ BiH is dissatisfied with Ashdown's statute on Mostar because under that document Croats hold only 40 percent of the local government, although they account for 60 percent of the city's population, the strongest Croat political party in the country says.
Asked by reporters to comment on media reports that Croatian General Ante Gotovina, wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal, was hiding in Herzegovina, Seks labelled those reports speculation.
Asked about the possibility for the Sabor to ratify a 1998 agreement granting Bosnia the right to use the southern Croatian seaport of Ploce, Seks said the Sabor would not ratify it as the circumstances which had led to the agreement had changed considerably in the meantime.
"An agreement on special relations between Croatia and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina has never become a reality. Had it become a reality, the Croatian parliament would have ratified the Ploce Port Agreement," Seks said.
He announced that Zagreb would soon propose a solution enabling Bosnia to use the port under the most favourable conditions, however, the solution would rule out the possibility of membership of an international arbiter in the port's managing board, which was envisaged by the 1998 agreement.