Croatia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlić Radman and his Bosnian counterpart Igor Crnadak, who met for the first time since Grlić Radman recently stepped into office, agreed on the need to solve outstanding issues in the bilateral relations and to work on the improvement of the relations in the region, the Bosnian ministry said in a press release on Monday.
The press release quotes Crnadak as commenting on Croatia’s plan to build a disposal site of waste from the Krško nuclear power plant at the Trgovska Gora location near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. He urged the completion of the construction of a new bridge across the River Sava at Gradiška near the Croatia-Bosnia border.
“The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs welcomes the agreement reached by the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s political parties, facilitated by the EU special representative, as an important step towards the formation of the Council of Ministers as well as the strengthening of the functionality and effectiveness of BiH state bodies and the implantation of the necessary reforms,” reads a statement which was issued by the Croatian ministry on 6 August, Hina reports.