President Ivo Josipovic has said that an agreement on border delineation between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, signed by presidents Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, should be made available to the public in its entirety, including the part with which "some in Bosnia and Herzegovina may be dissatisfied".
I think that we should discuss the entire agreement, Josipovic said in Sinj on Saturday adding that the 1999 agreement also envisaged that the border line at the River Una "shall also cross onto the other side of the whole current of that river."
He reiterated that regarding the border dispute over the islets of Veliki Skolj and Mali Skolj and the tip of the peninsula of Klek, it should be established where they belonged to, either to the then Socialist Republic of Croatia or the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the day when Croatia declared its independence.
"Before launching a possible referendum, or a ratification or an other decision-making process, we must know what it was about. I think it is good that the government wants to settle the relations with the neighbours," Josipovic said.
If on the day of the independence the said islets and Klek's tip belonged to Bosnia and Herzegovina, "then we must say very clearly that it is their territory with no stories about history".
He called for the abidance by the fundamental principle of the Badinter commission that the borderlines of former Socialist republics are the borders of the newly-established independent states.
"In general we can, perhaps, agree on something else, but this is the fundamental principle," Josipovic said.
