Komšić addresses EU Parliament: Condemn the jeopardising of BiH's sovereignty and the attempt to realise the convicted goals of the UZP

(Patria) - Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić, regarding the attempt to undermine the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina through statements by Croatian MEP Željana Zovko, sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

Below is the letter from the member of the BiH Presidency

Dear Ms. Metsola,

The recent intervention by MEP Ms. Željana Zovko, in which she once again interferes in the internal affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina by asking the Prime Minister of the neighbouring Republic of Croatia, Andrej Plenković, to "deliver the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina," is the latest blow to the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and especially to its European perspective.

Such views directly negate the rulings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), particularly regarding the "Prlić et al." judgment, which established the existence of a joint criminal enterprise aimed at creating mono-ethnic parts of the territory in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the de facto control of official Zagreb, i.e., the neighbouring Republic of Croatia, and the same goals are now being pursued through political means.

These views also, by certain members of the European Parliament, deny and reject the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights, which established the existence of ethno-territorial discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such views of the aforementioned MEPs are in complete opposition to the values and norms of the European Union, as prescribed in the Lisbon Treaty.

For these reasons, I take the liberty of requesting that the European Parliament, within the framework of appropriate procedures and ethical norms, adopt a position rejecting and condemning such views, which seek to realise the goals of the convicted joint criminal enterprise, with the ultimate aim of taking over and usurping the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina by neighbouring Croatia.

As the aforementioned statements cause instability in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we kindly ask that the European Parliament, within its procedures, take a clear stance on the inappropriate and highly destabilising interventions of Ms. Zovko."