The EU will not insist on migrant centers to be erected in Bosnia as this is too risky for such an unstable country, said Croat member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, Dragan Covic.

“To put a population that has shaken much more secure European systems than those we have here in the Balkans to a place with such an undeveloped security and legal system would be to risky,” he said.

The negative attitude toward the migrants will continue growing, Covic said. He views the migrants crisis primarily as a humanitarian and then as a security and political crisis, he added.

“Bosnia is very vulnerable as it does not have a normal infrastructure of state instruments to control their path,” he said, adding that the country has to be ready for new arrivals and migrant routes through its territory.

Speaking before the parliament on Wednesday, Bosnia’s Security Minister, Dragan Mektic, said some 6,500 migrants entered the country since the beginning of the year but that 4,000 already left.

“These 6,000 were a test and some 200 migrants that were overnight moved to Mostar because of the arrival of Turkey’s President to Sarajevo was only a test to show how the process will continue,” he said.

No migrant centers will be established in Bosnia as throughout the summer it is easier to cross the border, he said.

The Presidency member pointed out that efforts are being made to keep the migrants in the countries they have already reached, such as Greece and Turkey.

However, he warned that should the migrant crisis be underestimated, it could hit Bosnia hard and be used in election campaigns for the upcoming October general election.

According to Covic, “these migrants will be of use for someone’s calculations, campaign messages.”.

“Someone will deliberately organise an incident in order to present a certain kind of politics within these few months,” he said, adding that this could be very dangerous.

“Those poor people come with their children, entire families and this has to be viewed as a classic humanitarian problem. However, on the other hand, it becomes a security issue, as there were incidents among them,” he said, referring to fights among the migrants that occurred in the Salakovac centre as well as in the Bihac area.

Considering that Bosnia has dominantly ethnic clean areas where Croats, Serbs or Bosniaks live and that the migrants path crosses all of them, they will therefore be viewed differently and their presence could be abused, he said.

“So I am sure we will monitor this process, but we must not be naive about it,” Covic concluded.