Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that representatives of all three constituent peoples in Bosnia must be elected in accordance with the Dayton Peace Agreement.

On the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York, Croatia’s Grabar Kitarovic and Russia’s Lavrov talked about the parliamentary election in Bosnia and Herzegovina and agreed that representatives of the three constituent peoples should be elected according to the Dayton Agreement and Bosnian Constitutional Court verdicts.

The two also discussed the situation in the biggest Croatian private company Agrokor, the air pollution in the eastern Croatian town of Slavonski Brod and Grabar Kitarovic said she would meet the leaders of the Russian oil company Zarubezhneft in Bosanski Brod, responsible for the environmental problem in the Croatian town on the other side of the Sava river.

The Croatian president said that preparations were underway for the visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to Croatia, adding however that she was unable to say when the visit could take place.