Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlic Radman, who on Friday arrived in Mostar for a two-day visit, said that Croatia supported a stable and functioning Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state union of three equal and constituent peoples.

After his meeting with the Catholic Bishop of Mostar, Petar Palic, the Croatian minister pledged the continued support of Zagreb to the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to their projects.

He said that Croatia had also provided financial support to the Biblical Centre which the diocese in Mostar had launched. The project includes the construction of facilities housing the archives, museum artefacts and valuable artistic works as well as the construction of a conference hall.

Bishop Palic, who was ordained recently to this position, thanked the minister for the support.

Grlic Radman will take part in a conference on EU funds in Mostar on Saturday.