Serbo-Croat reconciliation depends on Bosnia

During a visit to Serbia Croatian President Ivo Josipović and his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadić have pledged that the difficult relations between their two countries will be relegated to the past. The daily Delo writes that the two presidents' words must be followed by deeds: "Success will depend above all on the country Bosnia and Herzegovina, the main challenge for Croatian and Serbian policies and the key to stability in the region. Croatia is gradually getting its citizens in Bosnia used to the idea of cutting the cord between them and recognising that they are a constituent people in a country whose capital is Sarajevo and not Zagreb. Serbia however is obviously not yet ready to make a fundamental change in its relationship with the Republika Srpska [the Serbian constituent republic in Bosnia]. Therefore although the assurance that the two countries are finding their way back to resolving their problems and establishing good relations creates an atmosphere of reconciliation, the words have only symbolic value and mean nothing concrete."

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