Croatia on Monday forwarded a letter to the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) President, expressing regret at Serbian President Boris Tadic having used a recent discussion on the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) before the Council to level "groundless" accusations at Croatian President Stjepan Mesic over his warnings about possible consequences of disintegration of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The letter from the Croatian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York was on Monday handed to Ambassador Zhang Yesui, the permanent representative of China to the UN. China is the UNSC president in January. The letter is to be circulated to all Security Council members as well as to all UN members as a document of the Security Council.
The letter said that there were no grounds for such a response from Tadic during the UN Security Council's discussion on UNMIK on 22 January to Mesic's statement about possible repercussions of the disintegration of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and it noted that Mesic made a statement off the record during his New Year reception to reporters on 18 January in Zagreb.
The letter reads that Mesic's statement should be interpreted as a strong-worded warning to the world not to ignore a policy pursued by the Bosnian Serb entity's Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and possible consequences of his policy the same way it had ignored for too long the policy of Slobodan Milosevic, which resulted in the bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
The letter recalls that Mesic also intended to unequivocally state that a break-up of the neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina would be absolutely unacceptable to Croatia.
Dodik announces on several occasions plans for the Republika Srpska to hold a referendum on its secession from Bosnia-Herzegovina
