The Bosniak member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, Sefik Dzaferovic, said on Wednesday he considered Croatian President Zoran Milanovic a "hopeless case" with whom it made no sense to talk, referring to Milanovic's controversial statements that have provoked strong reactions in BiH.
“As regards Milanovic, he is turning into a hopeless case,” Dzaferovic told reporters in Sarajevo who asked him for a comment on statements made by Milanovic on Tuesday.
During a visit to Valpovo on Tuesday, Milanovic said that Dzaferovic used to be a member of the Yugoslav secret police Udba and that he was “the sponsor of the arrival of the Mujahedeen to BiH.”
He said Dzaferovic treated Croatia as an aggressor on Bosnia and Herzegovina, noting that Dzaferovic took part in last month's Vukovar remembrance procession to provoke Serbs, and not out of respect for Croats.
Recalling that after Milanovic's earlier disputable statements he condemned those statements but also sent a message calling for cooperation, Dzaferovic said that the Croatian president had refused it, “levelling new insults and lies against me”.
He added that Milanovic's statements were shameful, unacceptable and unbefitting of a head of state.
Earlier this week, Milanovic provoked strong reactions by saying that genocide was committed in Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serbs killed 8,000 Bosniaks in 1995, but that a new name had to be invented then for worse crimes such as the Holocaust.
The president's statement was strongly criticised by Bosniaks in Croatia and Bosniak politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who accused him of insulting the victims.
He then said on Tuesday that he got involved in the debate about Srebrenica as he could not stand the labelling of entire ethnic groups as genocidal, noting that “Croats were labelled as such because of Jasenovac and now some Bosniaks are doing it to Serbs.”
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