Those who want to seize a part of Bosnia and Herzegovina or Kosovo live in an illusion, former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Saturday during his visit to the Baku Global Forum in Azerbaijan.

“It is completely clear that the borders cannot be changed, but there are those who think that Bosnia’s borders can be changed. Unfortunately, some circles in Bosnia, specifically, the Bosnian HDZ, are pushing for that,” he said, referring to Bosnia’s Croat Democratic Union (HDZ), the main Croat party in the country.

Covic last year allied up with Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who has been advocating for years for the RS to secede from Bosnia prior to taking the office of Chairman of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency at the October 2018 General Election.

The architecture of borders in Europe is finished, and Bosnia’s borders can therefore not change anymore, Mesic said.

“The policy from the times of (wartime Bosnian HDZ leader) Mate Boban, which wanted to break up Bosnia and later establish a third entity within it, is actually an anti-Croat policy,” he said, explaining that such a third entity would imply a territory within the Federation (FBiH), the semi-autonomous entity of the country shared mostly by Bosniaks and Croats.

“How would one decide on those borders, when they couldn’t even be changed during the war?” he asked, adding that such an aspiration is an “illusion.”