A legal expert Sulejman Tabakovic said Bosnia and Herzegovina should sue Croatia over its Law on Property Management by which it gained the right to rent and use the property belonging to states formed by the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.

Tabakovic said that Croatia now literally gave itself the right to dispose with this property and to rent it for a period of up to 30 years. According to international law, Tabakovic said Croatia does not have this right.

He pointed out that in 1991, Croatia adopted a decision blocking the property belonging to the former Yugoslav republics. This new Law now suspends the right of Bosnia’s legal and natural persons to take ownership over their property.

“However, based on the Annex G of the Succession Agreement (on the public and private property) between the former Yugoslav republics and a number of other regulations including the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and Optional Protocols, Croatia is forbidden from violating anyone’s right to ownership,” Tabakovic said.

Asked what Bosnian officials should do, now, Tabakovic said:

“Submit a lawsuit to stop the negative effect of the Law, call upon the 4th Geneva Convention, sue Croatia in the Hague Tribunal because it is a continuation of war crimes, plunder of civilian population according to the 6th and 7th Nurnberg Principle and seek protection from The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg,” he said.