On this occasion, the bishop of Banja Luka Franjo Komarica and don Slavo Grgić presented the system of Catholic School Centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to them, around 5000 children are being educated in seven centres, mainly through programmes for primary and secondary school. Pupils are of different nationalities.

Don Grgić stated that the Catholic School Centre in Bihać, which is the last of the mentioned seven centres; currently has classes in rented facilities, but added that March 2010 marked the beginning of constriction of the new building. Collocutors briefed Minister Jandroković on the financial plan for building a new school, and informed him on the problems that all Catholic School Centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina are faced with.

Minister Jandroković stressed that, according to the results of the last Intergovernmental conference on Croatia’s accession to the European Union, it is certain that the Republic of Croatia will soon become the next European Union member state. In the context of relations between the European Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina, he stressed that Croatia’s role in relation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, once Croatia becomes an EU member state, will be even more important. Furthermore, Croatia will, in the wider regional context, have the role of a bridge connecting the European Union and Europe’s south–east.

Bishop Komarica congratulated the Croatian government on their success in the negotiation process and said that Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina were delighted to hear the news form Brussels on the soon finalisation of negotiations.

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