ZAGREB, August 31, 2018 – President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović called on Friday on Croatian businesspeople to invest in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in that way facilitate efforts aimed at helping local Croats to stay there.
“We want to stimulate Croatian businesspeople to turn to investments in Bosnia and Herzegovina so that we can provide jobs for young people and have them stay,” the president was quoted by the Bosnia and Herzegovina edition of the Večernji List daily.
She underscored that Croatia will continue to help Croats and Bosnia and Herzegovina on its Euro-Atlantic journey, and respect the equality of all peoples. “It is the sincere wish of Croatia and its institutions to provide help in building Bosnia and Herzegovina as a modern European country for all its citizens. Croats have always respected the principle of the equality of all three peoples who live there. I believe that anyone who is a friend of this country has to value that fact,” she added.
Grabar-Kitarović is the co-patron of the Film Festival in the northern Bosnian town of Orašje, along with the Croat member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina presidency Dragan Čović.
She said that support for the festival was a substantial part of preserving historical and cultural identity without which there cannot be any talk of the survival of the Croat people in that country, particularly in the Posavina region.
“Since this festival was launched, more than two decades ago, it has offered hope for a better tomorrow in which it will be possible to live and create and in which generations of young people will emerge, being turned to the future that is in their hands,” Grabar-Kitarović said.
