"We work and act in compliance with measures which the Foreign Ministry ordered," the Croatian Ambassador in Sarajevo, Josip Vrbosic, told Hina on Wednesday. He said he had no other comments on the situation.
The reprinting of the controversial cartoons in the Croatian weekly was mentioned in the Bosnian media and public but failed to elicit larger comments. On the other hand, Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's condemnation of the cartoons and their reprinting was carried in the media in its entirety.
The Dnevni Avaz daily reported that the Croatian consulate in the northeastern city of Tuzla asked the local police to step up security measures due to the appearance of the cartoons in the Croatian weekly.
Dnevni Avaz, which is particularly influential among the Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) audience, concludes that it is strange to see that there are concerns about possible reactions to the weekly's move.
The Sarajevo-based daily recalls that the Bosnian weekly called 'Slobodna Bosna' reprinted the cartoons on 3 November 2005 after they had been initially published by the Danish 'Jylland-posten' two months before. Nobody paid attention to the (Slobodna Bosna) article, let alone that anybody made any serious comment or caused incidents, the daily said on Wednesday.
The Croatian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks on Wednesday repudiated the reprinting of the cartoons by Nacional.