US Congressman Mike Turner threatened Bakir Izetbegovic because Sutorine
US Congressman Mike Turner warned officials of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Washington that country could suspend assistance if an official Sarajevo does not withdraw from the dispute with Montenegro about Sutorine, reported Tuesday Podgorica media about an area that both countries consider their own.
Diary News states that in a letter to Turner Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bakir Izetbegović pointed out that the Congress and the Senate to decide on a document that BiH authorities urged to respect previously established limits and confirming agreement on demarcation with Montenegro.
According to diplomatic sources, the paper claimed that Turner submitted Izetbegovic and the document entitled Draft Law on the integrity of the Montenegrin border (Montenegro Border Integrity Act), the paper said.
Problem Sutorine "attempt to have a territorial dispute for stopping integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions, such as NATO," warned Turner, says Montenegrin newspaper.
Congressman Turner Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and advocate of accession to NATO.
Turner was mayor of Dayton when that city in 1995. Former presidents Croatian Franjo Tudjman, Alija Izetbegovic and Serbia Slobodan Milosevic agreed to the Dayton Accords that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and established today's structure of the country.
Montenegrin officials claim that the Dayton Accords and the opinion of the Badinter Commission Sutorina territory of Montenegro.
The Bosnian experts dispute that opinion.
Territory Sutorine along the coast of Montenegro, which leads to Prevlaka covers an area of eighty square kilometers, was a part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the Bay area annexed by the county.
Arbitration Commission in the framework of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia, known as the Badinter Commission, according to its President of the French lawyer Robert Badinter, was arbitration commission by the Council of Ministers of the then European Economic Community in 1991 tasked to resolve disputed legal issues with a view to a peaceful solution to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia .
A draft contract on the state border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro confirmed by the Council of Ministers in November 2014, after the demarcation that began in 2008.
SDP MP Denis Becirovic submitted a resolution demanding that the BiH Parliament is deemed unacceptable agreement on the border with Montenegro, stating that Sutorina belongs to BiH.
BiH House of Representatives has yet to vote on that resolution.
- 4 Mar, 2015
- 797 views
- No comments