The Bosnian Presidency, in consultation with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, has decided to postpone the Council session to allow time for the preparation of an agreement on property rights relations between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and an agreement on the status of Ploce port, he said.
"We have estimated that we would not be able to do it by November 19," Tihic said at a press conference in Sarajevo.
Asked who was expected to encourage resolution of the status of the port of Ploce, the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency said that the initiative should come from the Croatian prime minister.
"According to what I have been told by (the Chairman of the Bosnian Council of Ministers Adnan) Terzic, Prime Minister Sanader has promised to propose a solution to this problem," Tihic said.
In 2003, Terzic and former Croatian prime minister Ivica Racan harmonised a draft agreement on the port of Ploce and passage through the Bosnian coastal town of Neum, but the agreement was rejected by the Bosnian Presidency on the insistence of Tihic, who claimed at the time that the possibility of arbitration in the event of a dispute within the port managing board remained unclear.
During a recent visit of a Croatian parliamentary delegation to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Terzic said that he was no longer responsible for the issue of the port and that now it was "in the hands of" those who had rejected his agreement with Racan.