Milanovic: ‘Croats from Croatia and BiH should be kept together’ in the murky times’

The President of the Republic, Zoran Milanovic, said in Livno that Croats from Croatia and BiH must be kept together in ‘blurry times’ and invited to solve internal problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina by agreement with the other two nations and without mixing foreigners.

On Wednesday, Milanovic honored the Livno Brigade of the HVO Petar Krešimir IV in Livno. and spoke on the anniversary on the occasion of the 33th anniversary of the stopping of the Serb forces and the JNA on the front line of Livno, which prevented penetration from Dalmatia and the Neretva valley.

He assessed that we live in times that are not ‘reasonable and responsible but blurry, irresponsible. « 

« In such times, we have to stick together and we Croats and together and reasonably talk and arrange with the peoples who are close to us, » Milanovic said.

He added that in BiH he never comes with hidden and evil plans and called for an agreement on problems.

« It will need to arrange this agreement. Best to conclude it for themselves Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks with as little participation of foreigners as possible, » he added that there will be no agreement in BiH without participating in Croats there.

For the Livno Brigade of Petar Kresimir IV. said it was founded at the time of the fight for Vukovar in 1991, and that he has a huge contribution to the defense of BiH and Croatia in 1992.

« From here the second space, the Republic of Croatia, is controlled. That victory on April 2, 1992 was very indescribably important for Croatia and for the further action and control of this part of Dalmatia, » he said.

This stopping of the Serb forces across the Croatian President was a prerequisite for the liberation operation in 1994 and 1995.

« The storm began not in 1994, but maybe back in the spring of ’92 here, the defense of Livno and the creation of the assumptions of physical and spatial for the great HV victories in 1995, » said the president.

During the war, Brigade Petar Kresimir IV defended 80 kilometers long front lines and achieved the first HVO victories against the JNA and General Ratko Mladic in April 1992 with other Croatian units and under the guidance of General Ante Gotovina. During the Homeland War, 81 of its members were killed.