A total of 89 financial support agreements for projects supporting Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, worth about to 26 million Kuna (€3.5 million) in total, were signed in the village of Tolisa near the northern Bosnian town of Orasje on Friday evening.

The contracts confirm the continuity, systematic approach and consistency of Croatia's policy towards the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and good neighbourly support which Zagreb offers to the country, said Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who attended the agreement-signing ceremonies in the Franciscan Monastery, the landmark of the village of Tolisa.

“We have come here with the wish to arrange our relations in a quality manner and with our wish to settle our outstanding issues and to show through the support to the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina also our care for the rights of the Croats,” he said.

Plenkovic recalled that earlier in the day his cabinet also approved a grant of 600,000 kuna for the Catholic school centre in Bihac.

Thanking for the support and financial assistance, Bosnian Croat leader Dragan Covic from the Croatian Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) said that Croatia has by now supported thousands of projects essential for the citizens and institutions in Bosnia.

During his stay in Orasje, Plenkovic, accompanied by Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman and other officials, also met with representatives of the local authorities in Posavina Canton.