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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Euro-Atlantic integration is in Croatia’s national interest. It cannot be achieved without the equality of Croats in that country, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman said on Thursday.
“On the international scene, Croatia is the biggest and sincere advocate of Euro-Atlantic associations. That is our clear national interest. That won’t be possible without resolving the legitimate and legal demands of Croats” in BiH, Grlić Radman told a conference in Neum about reforms in BiH.
Grlić Radman also explained that the Croatian side in BiH has been the most constructive in reaching an agreement on amendments to the election law, providing proposals of how that can be done. Negotiations on election reform continued in Sarajevo on Thursday (17 March), with the US and EU acting as mediators.
BiH “hasn’t resolved the problem of the political disenfranchisement of Croats or stability and institutional functioning in BiH,” said the minister, noting that this is due to separatism and unitarism – two dominant conflicting politics in BiH.
“It is difficult to say which is more detrimental to the Croat people. Both politics directly demolish the historical and constitutional foundations of BiH as a joint state of three equally constituent peoples and citizens. Without respect for those principles, the knot in BiH will not be united for it to be a functional and stable country on the path to the EU and NATO,” added Grlić Radman.
