Addressing an event organised in Sarajevo on Tuesday to promote the proceedings from a conference on Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was published by the Miko Tripalo centre for democracy and the Zagreb law school, Mesic said that during the escalation of the Yugoslav crisis he had initiated a meeting of the then Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Serbian representative in the Yugoslav federation's collective presidency, Borislav Jovic.
Mesic said that the purpose of convening that meeting was to find a political solution to the problems which existed at that time. However, the meeting never took place as Tudjman and Milosevic established their direct telephone line and decided on their own what to do.
"I discovered that telephone line when I became the president and only then it was dismantled," Mesic said at the presentation which was attended by Bosnia-Herzegovina's tripartite presidency chairman Haris Silajdzic, and presidency member Zeljko Komsic.
Mesic accused the international community of having thrown "the bone of territorial division in Bosnia-Herzegovina".
"After that ignoramuses and crooks tried to implement that idea," the former Croatian head of state said.
He added that the only solution for Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as for the entire region is their integration with the European Union.
"The European integration will solve the problem of Bosnia-Herzegovina but only when those who think that border changes can solve something leave the political scene," he added.
During his testimony at the trial of Milosevic before the Hague-based UN tribunal in October 2002, Mesic said that Franjo Tudjman had believed in an integral Bosnia-Herzegovina until his meeting with Milosevic in Karadjordjevo, Serbia, in March 1991.
"Obviously Milosevic convinced him that Bosnia could be divided," Mesic said in his testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).