Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Friday commented on Serbian President Boris Tadic's announcement that he would report him to the UN Security Council for saying he would approve a military intervention if the Bosnian Serb entity was to hold a referendum on secession, saying that he could not understand Tadic's reaction because he was not interfering either in Bosnia-Herzegovina's internal affairs or in Serbia's.
"My statement was a conditional sentence and it takes some knowledge ofgrammar," Mesic said during a visit to the eastern town of Kutjevo.
"I said that the corridor (in Bosnia's northern Posavina region) shouldbe cut off if someone were to separate a part of Bosnia-Herzegovina from therest of the country. That is my opinion. Who should cut it off, whether itshould be NATO or someone else, is irrelevant."
Mesic underlined that it was necessary to keep Bosnia-Herzegovina within itscurrent borders and to eliminate any notion of breaking up the country.
"If someone were to separate Republika Srpska from Bosnia-Herzegovinaand join it with Serbia, Serbia's borders would move close to Karlovac. Thequestion arises why people had to die at all," Mesic said.
He added that this was why Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodikshould not be ignored and why his statement was dramatic.
"The international community kept silent while Milosevic was breakingup Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, and while he was creating an ethnicallyclean Serbia, which cost more than 100,000 lives in the region."
"Today we have again forces wishing to change the architecture of thisregion and that's why I warn the international community that this iseverything but a harmless situation," Mesic said.
