Croatian President Zoran Milanovic reiterated today that he would veto Finland’s invitation to join NATO until the election law in Bosnia and Herzegovina is changed, Hina and BTA reported.
This question came to us suddenly, like a spring rain. Nobody expected that. And Croatia should behave like a “Hitler Youth”, so let’s all become and say – maybe. No, we are not talking about it, we are not “Hitler Youth, nor Tito’s pioneers, we are a modern country that thinks with its head,” Milanovic said.
“If Cyprus can veto (in the EU) sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko until the gas problem with Turkey is resolved, why can’t Croatia do it?” He asked.
“As president representing Croatia at the NATO summit, I will veto the invitation if it is at that level,” the president told reporters in Vukovar, quoted by Hina.
The NATO summit will take place in Madrid at the end of May.
If the invitation is sent to a lower level, Milanovic continues, I am not sure I will have to get the Croatian ambassador to the NATO Council of Ambassadors to take my position. Then the government will have to make a decision, and that is that until the Croatian problem in Bosnia and Herzegovina is resolved, these countries (Finland and Sweden) should not be invited to NATO.
“I will persecute like hell the wrong soul of every member of the Croatian parliament who is in favor of Finland and Sweden joining NATO,” Milanovic added.
Milanovic called the Croatian government treacherous. “They are betraying Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and these people want very little, just the main thing, a state where national rights are respected,” Milanovic said.
According to him, Bosnia and Herzegovina is expected to ignore the fact that there are Croats, Serbs and Muslims so that Muslims can outvote Croats.
The Croatian parliament must not ratify anyone’s accession to NATO until the election law in Bosnia and Herzegovina is changed, President Milanovic told reporters last month.
“For us, Finland is more important than Croatia and the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, right?” He asked.
“Do you want to join NATO? No problem, we have enough time. This is a vital issue for Finland, and it is vital for us whether Croats will elect a Croat representative in Herzegovina. Well, now people will hear that who would not otherwise hear it. That’s enough, “Milanovic said.
He added that he only wanted Finland and Sweden to “tell the Americans to decide this”. “For me, the vital interest of the Croatian state, nation and people is for Bosnia and Herzegovina to be a functioning state,” he said.
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