Croatian President Zoran Milanovic's claim that the position of "Americans towards the status of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a hostile one" is absurd, FENA learned from the Public Relations Office of the US Embassy on Tuesday.

The Embassy noted that the policy of the United States towards BiH has been consistent for over three decades.

“We support the sovereignty, territorial integrity and multi-ethnic character of BiH, which consists of two entities and is inhabited by three constituent peoples and other nations. Our engagement throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina supports this goal.

The United States will continue to stand with all the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs and others – as we work to strengthen their country's democracy, develop their economy and secure the place their country deserves in the Euro-Atlantic community of countries.”

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, said on Monday, amid the pre-election campaign for the parliamentary elections in his country, that “the relationship of the European Union and the United States towards Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is hostile” and called out Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic for not addressing the issue because “he did not want to go against the European Commission”.

“The position of the European Union and the US towards the status of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a hostile one, not to use a stronger word. The fact that Croats in BiH are disenfranchised has really become an issue of Croatia's national pride. It's not a question of war and peace and it's not a question that anyone in Brussels is scratching their heads over,” Milanovic told journalists.