{"id":19845,"date":"2022-11-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=19845"},"modified":"2022-11-04T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T09:30:46","slug":"president-milanovic-at-ceremony-marking-liberation-of-kupres-the-croatian-state-has-instruments-with-which-it-can-and-must-help-croats-in-bih","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-at-ceremony-marking-liberation-of-kupres-the-croatian-state-has-instruments-with-which-it-can-and-must-help-croats-in-bih\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 at ceremony marking liberation of Kupres: The Croatian state has instruments with which it can and must help Croats in BiH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended today a ceremony marking the 28th<\/sup> anniversary of the liberation of Kupres. On this day in 1994 the first joint operation of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina was successfully carried out \u2013 Operation Cincar \u2013 which liberated the greater part of the Kupres plateau including Kupres, which the HVO entered on 3 November 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis day of liberation is a big day not only in Kupres but also for all those who aren\u2019t from Kupres, yet got news of the liberation of Kupres with apprehension, big expectations and with some disbelief\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated in his address. Recalling that time of twenty-eight years ago he reminded that there wasn\u2019t enough weapons, but there was a will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose two transport trucks that arrived on the last day wasn\u2019t assistance that came from Berlin or Washington. Those weapons were either captured in a battle or purchased on the black market at three times the price, with the money of Croatian people\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 noted, reminding that all Croatian operations during the war were brief. \u201cFor them to be brief and successful courage wasn\u2019t sufficient but it was indisputable\u201d. \u201cWhat was necessary was intelligence, wartime cleverness, an honest but also a clever way of conducting war\u201d, he added. President Milanovi\u0107 said that the limited resources were surpassed with an organizational genius that we lack in peace today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet us never forget \u2013 and in order not to forget we must repeat \u2013 that this was the beginning of the end of aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, against Bosnia and Herzegovina, that this was the beginning of the illustrious Operation Storm that followed. A territory was liberated that not only ended the war, but the enemy of the time was forced to sit down at the negotiating table. Thanks to you all those operations helped to end the war, the Croatian Army forced the adversary to surrender, and not NATO bombers. For this reason we must be deeply and eternally grateful to those people. If it wasn\u2019t for them, there wouldn\u2019t be a Croatian state, there wouldn\u2019t be the Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina either\u201d, the Croatian President stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, as an international agreement on the division of the government influence in Bosnia and Herzegovina was created with the agreement and acceptance of all those sitting at the table. At the table was Sarajevo, represented by the member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina of the time Alija Izetbegovi\u0107, whom we considered to be the President of the Presidency. The other side was political Zagreb, Franjo Tu\u0111man who represented the Croats as a whole in Dayton. The same goes for Belgrade and subsequently condemned war criminal Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107, who negotiated on behalf of Serbia and the Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. That agreement under the sponsorship of the United States in Dayton is the basis of your freedom, the preservation of your identity and simply a good feeling in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a neighbourly, friendly and second state, which I stress on every occasion. A state where the Croatian people live, whose numbers keep getting smaller and whose political rights are constantly being trampled on\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated, stressing that nothing changed not even after the last elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He assessed that it\u2019s a good thing that elections were held and noted that on the level of the presidency good results weren\u2019t achieved. \u201cThe principle remained unchanged, the principle of injustice and dishonesty. The other one, about whom I don\u2019t have a negative feeling, can elect my representative, yet I can\u2019t elect his. That must be changed!\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated. He said that to bring about these changes they will need the assistance of the Croatia state, because as he said \u201cin Croatia there is practically no further discord and bickering about the position and status of the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We all agree about what isn\u2019t good and what should be kept \u2013 that is Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. Everyone who is our ally and like-minded in this matter is welcome here in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Despite the events of thirty years ago, this is something that Croatia must actively enable for you because it can\u201d, the President of the Republic noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust as 28 years ago the instruments of politics were transport trucks, ammunition, radio stations and Croatian infantry and tank commanders, so today it is the European Union of which Croatia became a member, but not to beg for European funds. The EU and NATO are instruments that Croatia as a small but full-fledged member, a country of a unique history, a country that paid too high a price for its independence, even for American and western interests here \u2013 that that Croatia has instruments with which it can help itself, and by helping Croats in BiH it can help itself. Preserve your democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina, but you have to fight for it not with military resources, not with hate speech, not with exclusiveness, but with persistent repetition\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated in concluding his address in Kupres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 28th<\/sup> anniversary ceremony of the liberation of the liberation of Kupres was organized by the Croatian National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Homeland War associations of Kupres and the Municipality of Kupres. Speaking at the ceremony besides President Milanovi\u0107 were the Head of the Municipality of Kupres Zdravko Mio\u010d, retired General Tihomir Bla\u0161ki\u0107 and the war Defence Minister of Herceg-Bosna Vlado \u0160olji\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 28th<\/sup> anniversary ceremony of the liberation of Kupres began with a candle-lighting and wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial to the fallen Croatian defenders in the municipal park in Kupres. Attending the wreath-laying ceremony with President Milanovi\u0107 were the Head of the Cabinet of the President Bartol \u0160imuni\u0107, the Special Adviser to the President for Homeland War Veterans Marijan Marekovi\u0107 and the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivan Saboli\u0107, the Military Attach\u00e9 of the Republic of Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina Davor Kralj and the Consul Second Class of the Consulate of the Republic of Croatia in Livno Zvonko Picukari\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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