ZAGREB, Mar 15 (Hina) - The two-day international conference
"Bosnia-Herzegovina After Dayton", which began in Zagreb on
Saturday, raised the issue of the efficiency of military
cooperation between Bosniaks (Muslims) and Croats in the Federation
of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH), on which the peace process on the
Balkans greatly depends.
The conference was opened by the manager of the Applied Social
Research Institute of Zagreb, Ivan Rogic, who said that events in
BH had a bearing on Croatia's own stability, and that there was at
the moment in BH a deconstruction of an integrality model, to which
Croatia was not indifferent, since many Croats lived there.
The manager of the Croatian Strategic Research Centre, in
whose organization the conference is taking place, Marin Sopt, said
that the issue of BH challenged the security in south-eastern
Europe.
Croatian Deputy Defense Minister, Kresimir Cosic, warned about
the insufficiency of post-Dayton cooperation. Due to differing
interests and values, the federal partners in the building of the
BH Federation gave priority to different goals, which resulted in
separate strategies, he assessed.
Good military and civil relations must be established, Cosic
said, including a strong defense ministry and the depoliticizing of
the army. At the moment, the Federation army was acquiring
weaponry, regardless of the fact that there existed no strategy of
its activity and the generals were making decisions out of civil
control, Cosic further said, adding that the situation on the
ground was more complex and there was an intensive propaganda war
in which Croats were blamed for everything.
Cabinet chief of the Federation's Defense Minister, Martin
Bevanda, on many points agreed with Cosic and said that federal
partners could not enter international integrations without the
assistance of the international community. There would be no real
peace until institutions which would enable the admission into
international integrations, such as the Partnership for Peace for
instance, were established, Bevanda said, and also warned about the
still existing idea of a big Serbia and Muslim radicalism, which
were a threat to peace, especially if international forces left BH.
BH Ambassador at the United Nations, Muhamed Sacirbay, said
that Croatia and BH had an interweaving past and future, and that
they should therefore trust more their relations and force the
international community to consider them as equals.
Sacirbay said that the EU was becoming exclusive as an
economic club of rich members and that the international community
had had no vision as to what to do with BH, which caused an
institutional vacuum. Dayton was now just a truce, Sacirbay said,
but added that the Federation was a basis for the democratization
and the reintegration of BH.
U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith argued with the public stand
that the Dayton Accord had been signed just to implement its
military side. We wanted a lasting peace, which could be achieved
only by the implementation of everything that had been agreed on,
i.e. the return of refugees, the condemnation of war criminals and
the preservation of the integrity of BH, which was chosen by 70
percent of its citizens, Galbraith said.
The international community rewarded those who cooperated in
the implementation of the Dayton Accord, and the part of BH under
the Federation had been the best in this respect so far, Galbraith
further said, adding that Republika Srpska had refused to
cooperate, thinking that the exercising of human rights would
undermine its existence. Serb authorities in BH must look up to
Serbs in Eastern Slavonia, who were currently implementing the
Erdut Agreement, Galbraith said.
Croatia and the BH Federation had an open door for cooperation
with the U.S., which would enable a faster integration into
international institutions, a bigger economic cooperation and
prosperity, Galbraith said, adding that Croatia must enable all
Serbs to return to their homes, respect freedom of the media, while
the BH Federation must enable the return of all people to their
homes. Those who should divide BH into ethnic unions would not
succeed, Galbraith concluded, and added that lasting peace required
democracy and a law equal for all.
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