NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Hina) - Institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina seem to be ready to take on state responsibility on their own shoulders and continue on the path towards achieving a self-sustainable state capable of providing good life to
its citizens and integration into the European neighbourhood and institutions, Croatia's Ambassador to the U.N., Ivan Simonovic, said in a discussion about Bosnia-Herzegovina at a session of the U.N. General Assembly on Friday. Speaking about the Dayton Accords, Simonovic said Croatia considered them part of a dynamic process, which would answer to the new challenges in a new way. "We consider Dayton as an agreement which ultimately brought peace and stability to the country and an agreement that laid the necessary, and at the time, the only realistic institutional framework," he said. The Croatian ambassador also stressed the importance of implementing the Bosnian Constitutional Court's d
NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Hina) - Institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina seem
to be ready to take on state responsibility on their own shoulders
and continue on the path towards achieving a self-sustainable state
capable of providing good life to its citizens and integration into
the European neighbourhood and institutions, Croatia's Ambassador
to the U.N., Ivan Simonovic, said in a discussion about Bosnia-
Herzegovina at a session of the U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
Speaking about the Dayton Accords, Simonovic said Croatia
considered them part of a dynamic process, which would answer to the
new challenges in a new way. "We consider Dayton as an agreement
which ultimately brought peace and stability to the country and an
agreement that laid the necessary, and at the time, the only
realistic institutional framework," he said. The Croatian
ambassador also stressed the importance of implementing the
Bosnian Constitutional Court's decision on all three peoples being
constituent on the entire territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Simonovic expressed bitterness and disbelief at the fact that the
two most wanted war criminals in Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko
Mladic, are still at large. He expressed hope they would be arrested
and handed over to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
The ambassador also addressed relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He informed participants in the session about a Croatian-Bosnian
agreement on the return of refugees and announced the first joint
project on reconstruction in a Croat village in Bosnia's northern
Posavina region, to be equally financed by Croatia, the Bosnian
Serb entity of Republika Srpska, and the UNHCR.
Simonovic supported the closure of the U.N. mission in Bosnia,
which should take place next year, and expressed hope regional
organisations would successfully take over some of its current
tasks.
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