Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Vjekoslav Bevanda received in Sarajevo Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia Zoran Milanović, who is in his two day official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Chairman Bevanda and Prime Minister Milanović exchanged opinions on the current political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region, and on overall bilateral relations of BIH and RC, with a focus on promotion of economic relations and mutual foreign exchange in the light of soon entering of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union.
„At today's meeting we opened numerous topics, as it is the first visit of Prime Minister Milanović to a foreign country, and at the same time, I am a host, for the first time, to a foreign official. We opened all those topics that burden us for a quite a time and have not been solved for some fifteen-twenty years now“, Chairman Bevanda stated at a press conference after the meeting of delegations of BIH and RC.
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers said that a new way of communication between the two sovereign states was agreed in order to deal with problems in a frank and transparent way. He pointed at a need for lifting of inter-sector cooperation of two states to a higher level.
„Our joint conclusion was that it may well be considered as a success the finding of solution to some thirty per cent of the topics we discussed today, during our tenures, through an open cooperation and promotion of our common interests“, Chairman Bevanda stated, wishing Prime Minister Milanović welcome in each and every part of BIH.
Croatia's Prime Minister specified the topics opened at the meeting, namely infrastructure, roads, Croatian companies business activities, border crossings, bridge near Gradiška, Oil Rafinery in Brod, for which he said it represents a significant ecological issue for Croatia, and a road to connect Southern part of Dubrovnik-Neretva County with its Northern part, running through the territory of BIH.
„These are the issues that will not be solved by themselves“, Milanović concluded, adding that the Ploče Port was also the topic of discussion, for which he said that it is on the Croatian territory, but that it has no significance without BIH.
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