ZAGREB, Feb 5 (Hina) - Croatia has nothing against regional cooperation, but is against regional closing up, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said on Monday in reply to a suggestion to the foreign minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jadranko
Prlic, on establishing a region which would involve Bosnia's southern part, a section of Montenegro and Croatia's southernmost peninsula of Prevlaka. "Maybe some day this idea could become interesting, but only after the situation in Yugoslavia is solved, in relations between Montenegro and Serbia, after we obtain definitely democratic neighbours and after open issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially regarding Republika Srpska (as it also belongs to the so-called region) are solved," Racan told a regular monthly news conference. He added he accepted the idea as one for future times. The Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina has distanced itself from Prlic's idea which he submitted several
ZAGREB, Feb 5 (Hina) - Croatia has nothing against regional
cooperation, but is against regional closing up, Prime Minister
Ivica Racan said on Monday in reply to a suggestion to the foreign
minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jadranko Prlic, on establishing a
region which would involve Bosnia's southern part, a section of
Montenegro and Croatia's southernmost peninsula of Prevlaka.
"Maybe some day this idea could become interesting, but only after
the situation in Yugoslavia is solved, in relations between
Montenegro and Serbia, after we obtain definitely democratic
neighbours and after open issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially
regarding Republika Srpska (as it also belongs to the so-called
region) are solved," Racan told a regular monthly news conference.
He added he accepted the idea as one for future times.
The Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina has distanced itself from
Prlic's idea which he submitted several days ago.
Prlic said a trilateral summit -- gathering Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Croatia and Yugoslavia -- scheduled for late spring, could discuss
a special region in which cooperation would be established.
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