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SARAJEVO, October 30 (FENA) - The newly elected member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and President of the Democratic Front (DF), Željko Komšić, wrote in a letter to senior EU officials that representatives of the Republic of Croatia in the European Parliament have released a series of untruths misinformation regarding the electoral process in BiH.
After the Croatian lawmakers addressed the European officials in writing expressing concern over the elections in BiH, Komšić stressed that the elections were held in accordance with the current Constitution and the Election Law, saying that the letter of the Croatian MPs represents a diplomatic aggression of an EU member state against BiH.
He emphasized that the MPs from Croatia in the letter to the EU Foreign Affairs Council expressed a political intent to violate the provisions of the General Framework Peace Agreement for BiH, signed also by Croatia, in Dayton in 1995.
“The letter from Croatian euro parliamentarians is another attack of Croatia on the sovereignty of BiH and the sovereign right of Bosnia and Herzegovina to decide on its own electoral system. It is a direct interference of Croatia in the internal affairs of BiH that is contrary to international law and relations between the two sovereign states,” stressed Komšić.
The Dayton Agreement has reaffirmed the sovereignty of BiH, which means that Bosnia and Herzegovina was not created by the signing of the Dayton Agreement, as Croatian parliamentarians would like to have it and are implying in their letter, nor is it “a state of the two entities and the three constituent peoples,” underlines Komšić.
“Croatian parliamentarians are choosing to ignore the fact that BiH is a state of the three constituent peoples but in a community with all other citizens and minorities that live in it. A selective approach to the BiH Constitution leads to the promotion of discrimination, where the citizens of BiH and all the others that do not belong to the constituent peoples are being excluded as a constituent part of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” explained Komšić.
Therefore, Komšić believes that the dissatisfaction of Croatian MPs with the election results in BiH can only be of the nature of close-minded political party interests, because the denial of the legality of the electoral system in BiH that stems directly from the BiH Constitution constitutes a direct violation of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
He reminded that in the past year and a half the amendments to the Election Law were the topic of meetings of numerous expert groups and international representatives, where they discussed the manner of election of the deputies in the House of Peoples of the Federation of BiH Parliament, but not the Presidency of BiH.
Komšić also added that the EU Foreign Affairs Council has unambiguously stated that the principle of equality of all citizens of BiH must be guaranteed, while the Croatian euro parliamentarians in their letter nonetheless request that, in addition to already existing discriminatory provisions, which have been identified and shunned by the European Court of Human Rights, additional discriminatory provisions be introduced.
“These provisions would limit an already limited general right to vote so that Croats could only be allowed to vote for Croats, Serbs could only vote for Serbs, and Bosniaks could only vote for other Bosniaks. Such an utter anti-civilization, segregation and anti-European principle would permanently divide the already divided country and introduce ethnic segregation as the dominant manner of functioning of BiH,” Komšić concluded in his address to the EU officials.
Komšić sent his letter to the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn and the ministers of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.
(FENA) S. R.
