Jadranka Kosor, the former Prime Minister of Croatia, said she was expecting Croatia to do a lot more during its Presidency of the European Union and to pave the way for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Euro-Atlantic progress.

Speaking to N1, Kosor said Croatia had to use that opportunity as a country that “understands the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina the best.”

“It seems like the relationships are quite worse now than during my term,” said Kosor, who served as the 9th Croatia’s PM in the period 2009-2011.

“What I was insisting on was the cooperation with BiH institutions, the Presidency of Croatia with the BiH Presidency, the Government of Croatia with the BiH Council of Ministers. What we have today are partial meetings and they result in one big nothing,” she stressed, recalling of the meeting of the Serb member of BiH Presidency, Milorad Dodik, with Croatia’s leadership from September this year.

Dodik, who was said to be paying the visit as “representative of the Serb people and not a member of the BiH Presidency,” faced strong criticism in Bosnia, mostly that of the Bosniak leadership.

“When Dodik was here in Croatia I said that all member of the BiH Presidency had to be invited, and that made some furious. And what changed for the Croats in BiH after talks with Dodik? Nothing,” Kosor added.

Asked what would be the most useful help of Croatia for BiH, the former official said that would be the support on Bosnia’s EU path.

“That will also be good for the Croats in BiH, to live in their homeland the way they want, in a dignified and safe way,” she stressed.