Asked whether it was enough to have meetings of Presidents Ivo Josipovic and Boris Tadic for the normalisation of relations between Croatia and Serbia, Bozanic said that everybody should do their part of the job.
"Every step on that road is welcome and beneficial," Bozanic said, adding that "what the churches should do, no one else can do it on their behalf."
"I can say that the Catholic Church has very good relations with Orthodox bishops in Croatia and beyond," said Bozanic, who had attended a meeting of officials of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC) in Belgrade on 17-20 February.
Commenting on the impact of cooperation between the churches on Serbs' integration into Croatian society and the return of Serbs who fled Croatia during the war in the first half of the 1990s, the dignitary said that it was now the time that they solved their status in line with the law.
Legal frameworks make it possible for them to come back and it would be good for them to return as soon as possible or the issue of refugees might be used for political purposes by various sides which is of no benefit to refugees, according to Bozanic.
Asked about his position on attempts to set up a Croatian Orthodox Church, the Zagreb Archbishop said that "we in Croatia have the Serb Orthodox Church and we cooperate with it. It is our interlocutor."