Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said on Wednesday that he would instruct Croatia’s permanent representative to NATO, Ambassador Mario Nobilo, to vote against Finland and Sweden joining the Western military alliance until Bosnia and Herzegovina’s electoral law is amended, HINA reports.

According to Milanovic, Croatia must support the conditioning of Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO by the issue of equality in elections for Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“It is not a gesture against Finland and Sweden, but for Croatia,” he insisted, according to Agerpres.

The Croatian president also told a news conference that he believes that Bosnian Croats, as a political entity, are “destroyed” and that it is in Croatia’s interest to prevent this.

He added that Turkey, which opposes the two Nordic countries’ accession to the Alliance, is showing how to fight for national interests and “will certainly not give up until it gets what it wants”, while Croatia is doing just the opposite.

“We can talk about Ukraine, but it is not a burning issue for us. That is it, “he insisted, rejecting criticism of the prime minister and foreign minister that Croatia’s reputation could suffer with such a position.” I am ready to take the blame. more important than the entire Russian-Finnish border, “Milanovic said.