SARAJEVO FOR TWO-DAY VISIT SARAJEVO, March 23 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic on Thursday arrived in Sarajevo for a two-day official visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mesic was welcomed at Sarajevo airport by BH Foreign Minister
Jadranko Prlic and Sarajevo Mayor Rasim Gacanovic. Mesic will this morning hold a joint meeting with BH Presidency members and then also separate meetings with Alija Izetbegovic, Zivko Radisic, and Ante Jelavic. During the day, the Croatian president will meet the president and vice-president of the BH Federation, Ejup Ganic and Ivo Andric Luzanski, as well as Federation Premier Edhem Bicakcic and his deputy Dragan Covic. Mesic will this afternoon make a tour of Sarajevo and lay a wreath at a monument in the Ferhadija Street, erected in memory of Sarajevo residents killed during the war. In an interview published in the Sarajevo daily 'Oslobodjenje' on Thursday, Mesic said Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina should work with the
SARAJEVO, March 23 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic on
Thursday arrived in Sarajevo for a two-day official visit to
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Mesic was welcomed at Sarajevo airport by BH Foreign Minister
Jadranko Prlic and Sarajevo Mayor Rasim Gacanovic.
Mesic will this morning hold a joint meeting with BH Presidency
members and then also separate meetings with Alija Izetbegovic,
Zivko Radisic, and Ante Jelavic.
During the day, the Croatian president will meet the president and
vice-president of the BH Federation, Ejup Ganic and Ivo Andric
Luzanski, as well as Federation Premier Edhem Bicakcic
and his deputy Dragan Covic.
Mesic will this afternoon make a tour of Sarajevo and lay a wreath at
a monument in the Ferhadija Street, erected in memory of Sarajevo
residents killed during the war.
In an interview published in the Sarajevo daily 'Oslobodjenje' on
Thursday, Mesic said Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina should work
with the aim of building the best possible relations.
"That kind of cooperation in no way means only cooperation with the
Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina but with all three constituent
peoples. This way, we also want to make known that meddling into
Bosnia's internal affairs will cease."
Mesic emphasised that Croatia could not finance an army in another
state, especially not in such a nontransparent way as it was the
case before. According to him, parallel structures of authority and
remnants of Herceg-Bosna, which "among some create an illusion that
Bosnia-Herzegovina is going to be divided," must cease to exist.
Mesic said his message to his hosts in Sarajevo would be that all
refugees have to return to their homes, and that they have to be
provided with physical and financial security, as well as that
economic resources finally have to be activated.
"I want to tell my hosts in Sarajevo that Dayton has to be
implemented because Croatia is one its guarantors," Mesic said,
adding it would be possible to further build the agreement only
after it was implemented in its entirety.
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