SARAJEVO, Aug 21 (Hina) - The chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina's Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, has said that Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan should not worry how Bosnia-Herzegovina will construct a highway and should
instead ensure the return of refugees to Croatia who are still staying in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
SARAJEVO, Aug 21 (Hina) - The chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina's
Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, has said that Croatian Prime
Minister Ivica Racan should not worry how Bosnia-Herzegovina will
construct a highway and should instead ensure the return of
refugees to Croatia who are still staying in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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In a very negatively worded article in Thursday's issue of the
Dnevni Avaz daily on preparations by the Croatian government to
send a letter of intent to Sarajevo on the construction of a section
of a highway known as Corridor 5C, Terzic said that "Prime Minister
Racan should not worry about Bosnia-Herzegovina and the
consequences it will suffer as a result of its own decisions."
"If he really cares for Bosnia-Herzegovina, (Racan) should make
efforts to solve other issues, such as the return to Croatia of
refugees staying in Bosnia-Herzegovina and speed up the signing of
a bilateral agreement on property relations," Terzic said.
This newspaper has been lobbying for weeks for the privately-owned
company Bosmal as a potential constructor of the highway, which
will run from the Hungarian capital of Budapest via Bosnia-
Herzegovina to the southern Croatian seaport of Ploce. Today's
article accused the Croatian prime minister of blackmailing the
government of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Other media in Bosnia-Herzegovina carried objective reports on
preparations by the Croatian government to propose its modalities
for the construction of the highway, saying that it was quite
possible that the Croatian offer would be cheaper and more
favourable for the national interests of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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