In attendance was Croatian Parliament Speaker Josip Leko, after visiting places in the area with a Croat population to find out about the problems of returnees. He also visited a plant of the Croatian confectionery company Kras in Prijedor, which transferred part of its production there to place goods on the Central European Free Trade Agreement market.
Also in attendance was Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic.
In the joint declaration, religious heads and representatives of the Catholic, Islamic and Jewish communities called on Bosnian politicians to take more resolute action to strengthen peace and stabilise the situation in the country.
A difficult moral crisis is the backdrop of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the declaration says, calling for more justice and solidarity in society.
A call was made to ensure that the victims of violence in the past exercise their rights and that refugees and the displaced return and lead dignified lives.
The Archbishop of Sarajevo, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, and the head of the Islamic community in Bosnia, Husein Kavazovic, strongly supported those goals.
Puljic said a life together must be built on the truth and that without truth there was no freedom or peace, while Reis Kavazovic said today's generations could not change the past but could improve the present and pave the way for a better future.
Representatives of the Serb Orthodox Church did not sign the declaration and took part in the meditation and prayer meeting only as observers.
The declaration and the meeting were supported by the international community's High Representative to Bosnia, Valentin Inzko, who said it was good that religious leaders were working on that and that it would be even better if the masses accepted it, which would lead to social harmony.
Inzko said it was unacceptable that things were at a standstill in Bosnia when its neighbours were changing so fast.
Croatia worked on European Union accession for 12 years, the Serbs have started dealing with a problem old 600 years and they will solve it. I think the politicians in Bosnia too can solve the issue of personal identification numbers and the Sejdic-Finci ruling, he said.