Stipe Mesic: Kosovo border ? Serbia is unprecedented

Former Croatian President Stipe Mesic, in an interview for the Polish-language DW edition, has talked about developments in the Western Balkans.

Mesic has said that Bosnia and Herzegovina's problem is one of the problems that must be solved, as, according to him, is one of the most complex problems in the Western Balkan region.

Mesic has already criticised Belgrade's policy against Bosnia, as he says, on the one hand Serbs are declared to respect a unified Bosnia and Herzegovina, while at the same time supporting the policies of Milorad Dodik, who does not recognise Bosnia as a state.

The former Croatian president has also talked about the invulnerability of the borders of states in the Western Balkans, stressing the fact that all wars in the Balkans have been fought due to borders.

“Absolutely. All the wars in Europe have begun because of borders. And all aggressors have lied, saying they're trying to protect national minorities in the other country. However, they later invaded territories of other peoples. They just lied to”, said Mesic, broadcast Express.

Speaking of Slobodan Milosevic's regime, Mesic has said the notorious president wanted an ethnically clean Greater Serbia.

But the former Croatian president says Milosevic, even though the powerful army had not been able to change a millimeter of borders between the republics of the former Yugoslavia and the provinces.

So when Milosevic and his powerful army failed to change borders, no one could change them either now”, Mesic has managed.

The former Croatian president further adds that Milosevic's tendency to create a ethnically clean, key Serbia “had triggered persecution and ethnic cleansing of other non-Serb peoples of the Balkans.

As asked about the possibility of a possible explosion in the Balkans, Mesic has said he does not believe the situation is in that phase that such a thing could be expected, re-expounding as problematic, Dodik's Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.