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Komšić: Dodik to fall in trap because of focus on vital entity interest

FENA Fedzad Forto

SARAJEVO, July 17 (FENA) - If we look at the contents of the conclusions from yesterday's session of the BiH Presidency, then it is clear that it has not been even debated to launch a “dispute with Croatia”, but that within the appropriate sequence of steps and in accordance with international law, the border at sea between BiH and Croatia has to be established, BiH Presidency Member Željko Komšić said today in the statement for FENA.

“Thus the focus is not on the bridge itself but on solving the border at sea, from which we can then approach and solve the issue of undisturbed passage from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the point of access to the open sea. We talked about that yesterday. That is the fundamental question,” says Komšić.

According to him, there is nothing controversial in these conclusions because it is a call to the Republic of Croatia to open talks on establishing the border at sea in order for Bosnia and Herzegovina to exercise its rights under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

“To associate this to something with a bridge or a construction that is some 300 kilometers north of the Gulf of Mali Ston, the Bosanska Gradiška – Gradiška bridge, is somehow absurd in itself, unless there are someone's personal interests and not a vital entity interest, as is true stipulated by the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he stressed.

He says the situation is even more absurd if they know at least two things.

“The first thing that sounds strange and unwise is that one BiH entity, in this case Republika Srpska, seeks to consider the issue of vital entity interest in the second BiH entity called the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in issues in which entities have no jurisdiction related to state borders between two neighboring countries. Does this mean, then, that the BiH entity of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina can indiscriminately subject issues as problems in the other entity as its own entity interest? I hope that at least some MPs at the National Assembly will have enough wisdom to recognize this kind of absurd move by Milorad Dodik as politically inattentive and will point this out during the session or will simply leave during the vote. Let him think about it,“ Komšić warned.

Another important issue, he says, is the letter that former Presidency member Nebojša Radmanović sent in 2009 to former Croatian President Stjepan Mesić.

“In this letter, he requests exactly what we have adopted in yesterday’s conclusions and which Croatia is silent about for the last ten years. Does this mean that Milorad Dodik has rejected the opinion of his party colleague as well because of his particular financial gain which is not connected to the BiH entity of Republika Srpska, but with his personal interests? In the end, we are in possession of the document of the European Commission which contains the official position of the Republic of Croatia, which delivered the agreement signed between Tuđman and Izetbegović, where the sea borders are determined, as a legal act when applying for EU funds. That agreement, however much denied by the former Croatian government, has just been delivered on their side as the legal basis for resolving the open sea border issue,” said Komšić for FENA.

 

(FENA) L. N.

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