The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended the official opening of a glamping village at the Terme Tuhelj spa resort, after which he took questions from members of the press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President commented on his statement given in an interview to the RTCG broadcaster during his visit to Montenegro, in which he spoke about relations in the region and referred to Bosnia and Herzegovina as \u201ca state of three entities\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that his statement on the three entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina was \u201ca minor slip of the tongue\u201d and added that the very word \u2018entity\u2019 was a wrong name for how the country was organised territorially. \u201cI believe that my work, my speeches, my positions mostly show that I advocate Bosnia and Herzegovina the way it is, as a guarantor of some sort of stability,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 told the press, stressing that the fundamental problem was the use of the term \u2018entity\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am actually glad that this minor slip of the tongue has happened, I did say three entities. This is a message to all those to whom Bosnia and Herzegovina is a supreme value, a united Bosnia and Herzegovina, some would say even a unitary B-H \u2013 with which many people in B-H do not agree \u2013 the term \u2018entity\u2019 was imposed, it was made up at the time when the Dayton peace agreement was signed, and it is, in fact, entirely wrong,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe (country\u2019s) two units of territorial organisation… are federal units, they are not entities,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 said, adding that he \u201cdidn\u2019t have ill intentions\u201d. \u201cThe word entity should be thrown out precisely by those who do not want to give these entities special power and uniqueness, that is, distinctiveness \u2013 and being unique, detached, that is, distanced from something is characteristic of an entity. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, under its constitution, there are three key ethnic entities, the Bosniaks, Serbs and the Croats,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 said, noting that the term \u2018entity\u2019, used to describe the country\u2019s two units of territorial organisation, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, was misapplied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, in his reply to reporters\u2019 other questions President Milanovi\u0107 said that the intentions of the organisers of the Zadar tennis tournament were not bad. \u201cThere was a wish to set life in motion in Croatia and attract people, but unfortunately those plans went awry,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 pointed out, adding that \u201cnow people will not come to Croatia,\u201d but he also expressed hope they would come later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commenting on the upcoming parliamentary election, the President of the Republic said that he believed they would be held \u201cin a normal atmosphere, as much as that it possible.\u201d \u201cElections are a less aggressive event than a concert or a party in Zadar,\u201d he said, adding that elections last one day and can be extended for an hour, if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Milanovi\u0107 also commented on the physical contact between Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 and infected tennis player Novak \u0110okovi\u0107, and journalists asked him if Mr. Plenkovi\u0107 needed to self-isolate because of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUsually people wash their hands. Even before the epidemic, we washed our hands. And since you are asking me about handshakes, I think that nobody in Croatia shook hands more in the last ten years than I have. You have to be disciplined, handshaking is not the problem. Handshaking, if hands are washed, is not the problem. This is going to be a great headline, we\u2019re talking about handwashing \u2013 we\u2019ve come to the point of discussing such banal things. The problem with hands is that you can infect yourself. Take care of yourself, the country can\u2019t do that for you,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 commented on shaking hands in the campaign and the contact between Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 and infected player Novak \u0110okovi\u0107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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