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SARAJEVO, Aug 28 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina expects of the United
States further support and assistance in overcoming open issues in
relations with Croatia, a spokesman for Bosnian Presidency
chairman Alija Izetbegovic's office said in Sarajevo on Friday.
Spokesman Adamir Jerkovic explained the open issues with Croatia
referred to the southern Croatian port of Ploce, passage through
Neum, Bosnia's access to the Adriatic Sea, and property issues.
He spoke to reporters on the occasion of the upcoming visit of the US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
On Monday Albright will, as has been announced, meet with
Izetbegovic and the Croat member in Bosnia's collective
Presidency, Kresimir Zubak.
German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel is also expected to visit the
Bosnian capital on Monday, for talks with Izetbegovic and Zubak,
and the Premier of the Croat-Muslim Federation of BH, Edhem
Bicakcic.
The Albright visit to Sarajevo comes at a time of electoral
preparations, Jerkovic said, adding this was being interpreted as
support to democratic political forces.
"The US is Bosnia's most significant diplomatic partner and we see
Madeleine Albright's visit as further continuation of America's
principled policy towards our country and region", the spokesman
said.
Jerkovic assessed the Albright visit came at the right time also
because partners in the Federation of BH were reviving theses on the
securing of exclusive national territories which, he said, were at
one time put forward as cantonal rearrangement, believed by the
Muslim side as a possible danger to the Dayton peace agreement.
During his visit to Sarajevo, Kinkel will also open a Volkswagen car
factory in Vogosca.
According to Jerkovic, talks with Kinkel will focus on the issue of
refugees and their return.
The official Sarajevo believes their return should be slowed down
until conditions are provided for a return throughout Bosnia.
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