SARAJEVO, Nov 14 (Hina) - Bosnian Croats who think they could create a para-state on Bosnian territory which would one day become part of Croatia are deluded, Croatian President Stipe Mesic told Tuesday's edition of Sarajevo-based
daily Dnevni avaz. He said such notions were contrary to what was happening in Europe and hurt the basic interests of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, just as similar separatist ideas hurt Bosnian Serb interests. "Even those representing the Croat people in BH don't realise that this perhaps earns them financial gain but certainly damages the Croat people by homogenising it again," Mesic said. He condemned a referendum Bosnia's Croatian Democratic Union party held among Bosnian Croats during last weekend's election, saying the creators of this kind of policy would trip after the very first step. "The budget of the Republic of Croatia will not participate in it," he said
SARAJEVO, Nov 14 (Hina) - Bosnian Croats who think they could create
a para-state on Bosnian territory which would one day become part of
Croatia are deluded, Croatian President Stipe Mesic told Tuesday's
edition of Sarajevo-based daily Dnevni avaz.
He said such notions were contrary to what was happening in Europe
and hurt the basic interests of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
just as similar separatist ideas hurt Bosnian Serb interests.
"Even those representing the Croat people in BH don't realise that
this perhaps earns them financial gain but certainly damages the
Croat people by homogenising it again," Mesic said. He condemned a
referendum Bosnia's Croatian Democratic Union party held among
Bosnian Croats during last weekend's election, saying the creators
of this kind of policy would trip after the very first step.
"The budget of the Republic of Croatia will not participate in it,"
he said, reminding the position of Croatia's authorities was that
Bosnia must stay integral and as such seek access to the European
Union.
Croatia is absolutely against new reorganisation in Bosnia as this
would eventually lead to the recognition of results of ethnic
cleansing, said Mesic.
He announced that at an upcoming conference marking the fifth
anniversary of the Dayton peace agreement he would propose measures
aimed at reinforcing the roles of central bodies of authority in
Bosnia and inciting the establishment of uniform armed forces.
Commenting on last weekend's general election in Bosnia, the
Croatian president said the international community had not been
ready as the electoral rules it proposed homogenised the three
peoples.
Once again, the Bosnian election was more like a census, he
assessed.
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