If Serbia will insist on a part of former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito's private estate, Bosnia and Herzegovina will do so too because it is entitled to it under the agreement on succession to the former Yugoslavia, Assistant Finance Minister Zenit Kelic has said.
He was commenting for Sarajevo's Daily Avaz daily on announcements from Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic's office that he decided to allow access to Tito's private estate which the Presidency of the former federation deposited in the National Bank in Belgrade after Tito's death 33 years ago.
Kelic said in the paper's issue of Wednesday that if Serbia were to claim the estate, all successor states to the former Yugoslavia should be entitled to a piece, "if there is, for example, gold, money or some securities."
It is unclear if the announcement of possible access to Tito's estate refers only to what is stored in the 11 sacks in the National Bank, which have not been opened and on which Tito's heirs insist, or to the entire estate found in his homes.
Kelic dismissed as unfounded and unacceptable the claims by Oliver Antic, Nikolic's legal adviser, that the Serbian president's office was the legal successor to the Presidency of the former federation.
The sacks in the National Bank are believed to contain money and some gold jewelry.
