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SARAJEVO, July 31 (FENA) - Reports in the media that, during an official visit to Israel, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said that Bosnia and Herzegovina is controlled by "militant Islam, which is dominant in establishing its agenda," is something deeply disturbing. If this has been accurately conveyed, the president's claims are definitely untrue and should be rejected as such, stated BiH's Permanent Representative to the UN, Sven Alkalaj.
Croatian president's claims that “the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina are under the control of certain structures linked to Iran and terrorist organizations" are equally untrue and point to her suspicious motives for making such claims,” Alkalaj says.
He stressed that President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović cannot be allowed to fabricate unfounded allegations against the neighboring countries.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a multi-ethnic, pro-Western and democratic state that, to this day, receives threats from its neighbors who have not given up expansionist aspirations for against it.
What Bosnia and Herzegovina wants are democracy, peace, and prosperity for all its citizens in its internationally recognized and sovereign territory, Alkalaj underlined in his reaction.
“As a member of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, currently acting ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations in New York, I can personally confirm the untruthfulness of the Croatian President's statements about my country. Particularly irritating is the fact that she misused her official visit to Israel, and especially in the context of the Holocaust, as a place and occasion for her false claims. The international community should not remain silent to these false statements of Croatian president in an attempt to obscure the inappropriate activities of the Croatian government regarding the true reckoning and rejection of Croatia's dark past, as well as Croatia’s behavior towards its minority communities,” said Ambassador Alkalaj.
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