Legitimate representatives of Croats in BiH not acting against Dayton Agreement

Legitimate representatives of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not acting against the Dayton agreement – that is being done by those who are preventing the electoral reform, the Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Ministry (MVEP) said in a press release on Tuesday.
 
The ministry’s statement was a response to the U.S. imposing sanctions on BiH’s Federation entity president, Marinko Čavara.
 
The Republic of Croatia does not consider that the legitimate representatives of Croats have acted against said tenets because it is in their greatest interest to honour the Dayton agreement and for Bosnia and Herzegovina to join NATO and the EU, MVEP said in the press release.
 
“The announcement by political parties within the Croatian National Assembly and other parties that they will go to the polls despite the irregularity of the current election law testifies to their commitment to the principle of preserving the fragile stability in the multinational and multiconfessional Bosnia and Herzegovina given the extremely difficult geopolitical circumstances due to the Russian aggression against Ukraine,” the ministry said.
 
It added that Croatia is a co-signatory of the Dayton Agreement and condemns any kind of action that undermines it.
 
MVEP stresses that Croats are not the ones doing it.
 
“That applies primarily to the political parties advocating and pursuing a policy of separatism and unitarism as well as destabilising Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign state, constitutionally made of two entities and three equal constituent peoples.”
 
Representatives of such political orientations are refusing to carry out the electoral reform, that is, to implement the Sejdić-Finci case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the ruling of the Constitutional Court in the Ljubić case, the ministry pointed out, without stating to whom it was referring.
 
Since such a change of the election law would ensure the right of Croats to elect their legitimate political representatives as members of the other two constituent peoples do, thus also ensuring the stability of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia continues to call on its partners and allies the U.S. and the EU to support reaching an agreement on the electoral reform, the ministry said.
 
Text: Hina/MVEP

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