After meeting all three members of Bosnia's collective state presidency in Sarajevo, President Mesic told reporters that it was very important that both countries shared commitment to joining Euro-Atlantic associations.
"Bilateral relations can be further improved, and the outstanding issues can be solved one by one. It is important that all such issues can be solved," Mesic said, adding that this required a little bit more good will.
He underlined the need for the two countries to intensify cooperation in the economy and infrastructure.
Bosnian Presidency Chairman Nebojsa Radmanovic said that his country expected from Croatia support and assistance based on its experience in integration with Euro-Atlantic institutions.
Radmanovic said that a proposal was made to organise a session of the Croatian-Bosnian cooperation council and that the cooperation between the two governments on concrete projects was expected to improve after the establishment of the new executive authority in Bosnia.
The Croatian head of state hailed NATO's decision to invite Bosnia to join the alliance's Partnership for Peace programme.
During his stay in Sarajevo, Mesic held a brief meeting with the international community's High Representative to Bosnia, Christian Schwarz-Schilling.
Mesic also awarded a prominent Bosnian friar, Petar Andjelkovic, with a medal for his charitable activities and contribution to the development of friendly relations between Croatia and Bosnia.
At the ceremony held in the Croatian Embassy, Andjelovic said that he was saddened by the fact that during the war in the 1990s others had not listened to what Bosnian friars were saying in the way Mesic did.
He also said that the award went not only to him but to all his Franciscan predecessors and successors who did and would do good.
In the evening, the Croatian president attended a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Opera of the National Theatre in the Bosnian capital.