"Generally, we should work on improving Bosnia and Herzegovina's image in the world". Crnadak, an official of the Party of Democratic Progress (PDP), one of the major parties in the country's Serb entity, said in an interview with the Bosnian "Dnevni Avaz" daily on Thursday.
As for the country's EU membership bid, Crnadak expects the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), which will take effect in April, to help Bosnia's efforts on the path towards the European bloc.
"We will get a new framework for cooperation with the EU, and this is an opportunity which all of us in the government mustn't miss," Crnadak told the Sarajevo-based daily.
As for plans about pushing Bosnia closer to NATO, Crnadak said that he as well as his PDP party shared the same opinion with other Serb parties in Bosnia that the country's admission to the Alliance was not yet an option on the agenda.
"We should continue at a level of cooperation we have developed to date," Crnadak said.
Bosnia has been granted a status of member of NATO's "Partnership for Peace" programme, and the activation of Membership Activation Map, as the last step before joining NATO, hinges on the registration oof military property and assets as the state ownership. However, this is strongly opposed by Bosnian Serb politicians led by the entity's leader Milorad Dodik who insists the registration of that property as the ownership of the Serb entity and the Croat-Muslim Federation.
Crnadak is hopeful that the registration of that property into land books will be solved, but, he said, this does not mean that Bosnia should join NATO.