PAccording to Milanovic, Croatia should not ratify the accession of any country to NATO until there is a reform of the electoral legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zoran Milanovich
The applications of Sweden and Finland to join NATO are a dangerous gamble, these countries cannot join the alliance until the law on elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is changed in the interests of Bosnian Croats, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said.
“I consider it a dangerous adventure to involve Finland, which is located 50 km from St. Petersburg,” he said (quoted by Danas). According to the President of Croatia, the national Parliament should not ratify the accession of anyone to NATO until there is a reform of the electoral legislation in BiH.
“As for me, let them join NATO, let them poke an angry bear in the eye with a pen,” he continued. However, “until the issue of the election law in BiH is resolved, until the Americans, the British and the Germans force [the Bosnian authorities] to change the election law in the next six months and give the Croats basic rights, the Croatian parliament should not ratify anyone’s entry into NATO,” the TV channel reports Milanovich N1.
Sources of The Times reported that Sweden and Finland are ready to join NATO this summer. According to Erkki Tuomioi, deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament, Helsinki may apply in the coming weeks.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the possibility of Sweden and Finland joining the alliance, said that such a decision could lead to the most undesirable consequences and would seriously worsen the situation in the military sphere. In this case, according to Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Russia will have to “seriously strengthen the grouping of land forces and air defense” and “deploy significant naval forces in the waters of the Gulf of Finland”. “In this case, there will be no talk of any nuclear-free status of the Baltic Sea.” The balance must be restored,” he said.
At the same time, Medvedev said that “there is no point in arguing” that if there is not a special operation in Ukraine, then the question of the accession of Sweden and Finland “generally did not arise”. According to him, “attempts to drag” these countries into the alliance have been made before.
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