SARAJEVO FOR NON-ADOPTION OF PLOCE DEAL SARAJEVO, Sept 17 (Hina) - A vice president of the Croatian parliament, Zdravko Tomac expressed regret in Sarajevo on Wednesday over the postponement of a final solution to the status of the
southern Croatian seaport of Ploce, asserting that the Bosnian side exclusively was responsible for the delay.
SARAJEVO, Sept 17 (Hina) - A vice president of the Croatian
parliament, Zdravko Tomac expressed regret in Sarajevo on
Wednesday over the postponement of a final solution to the status of
the southern Croatian seaport of Ploce, asserting that the Bosnian
side exclusively was responsible for the delay. #L#
After his meeting with Nikola Spiric, Bosnian parliament's House of
Representatives chairman, Tomac, who led an eight-member
parliamentary delegation on a two-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina,
told reporters that the governments of the two countries had
reached agreement on a protocol which should help remove disputable
provisions of the Port Ploce Agreement, but the agreement had not
been implemented.
"The Bosnian side has, for reasons hard to understand, postponed
the settlement of the issue for the time being," Tomac said.
He added that it was unrealistic to expect the Croatian parliament
to have the ratification of the Ploce Port as an item on its agenda
this autumn before the coming parliamentary elections.
Nikola Spiric said the joint orientation of the two countries' MPs
was to support, in the proceedings of the adoption of pertinent
laws, all solutions agreed upon by the two governments.
Spiric and Tomac agreed hat the enhancement of bilateral
cooperation and mutual confidence were the best proof of the two
countries' commitment to European standards.
Spiric said Bosnia did not oppose Croatia's intention to regulate
its accession into the European Union through an individual rather
than collective approach. The only condition is, he said, that
attention should be paid to efforts aimed at settling open issues in
the region.
Tomac reiterated Croatia's official stand that the regional
uniting as a sort of a waiting room for the purpose of joining the
European integration processes would be the wrong approach to the
detriment of all countries in the region.
The two interlocutors hailed Croatian President Stjepan Mesic's
initiative for a trilateral approach to the settlement of problems
of refugees, in which Zagreb, Sarajevo and Belgrade should be
actively engaged.
The Croatian parliamentary delegation arrived in the Bosnian
capital at the invitation of the Centre of Civil Initiative in
Bosnia (CCI) to take part in a round table discussion on citizens'
influence on legislation.
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