Croatia's President Zoran Milanovic said on Wednesday that Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency members Zeljko Komsic and Sefik Dzaferovic "are not people with honest intentions" and that "the aggressive, insolent and direct threat" that Bosnia "would be different from how it was conceived" is "not good," state agency Hina reported.

“They are not people with honest intentions. But I will refrain from calling them fascists and chauvinists, which is what they are calling me,” Milanovic said in Sisak.

On Monday, Milanovic said that Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik’s proposal for the presidents of Croatia, Serbia and Turkey to act as mediators in talks on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s future was “well-intentioned but unrealistic” as it was opposed by the other two members of the Bosnian Presidency.

“The intention is compliance with the Dayton Agreement which is persistently violated by certain people and political camps when they accuse Croatia of a criminal enterprise,” Milanovic said, and added that “of the three Bosnian Presidency members, two have been doing so actively and on a daily basis,” a reference to the ethnic Croat Presidency member Komsic and the ethnic Bosniak member Dzaferovic.

This prompted Komsic to say that Milanovic was an advocate of the policy pursued by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Hina said.

Resolutely dismissing Dodik’s proposal for the presidents of Croatia, Serbia and Turkey to join in negotiations on ways to resolve internal issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Komsic, who currently chairs Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency, said he did not see “how the two countries that have carried out an act of aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina could today have greater international credibility than the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, the EU, UN or Russia for that matter, which witnessed the signing of the Dayton Agreement.”

“I know what I have done in the last 15 years, and how much faith and hope I have placed in some people and some concepts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It simply does not work. It stood some chances during the term of Sulejman Tihic (former Bosniak leader and  president of the SDA party). Now it stands no chance,” Milanovic said on Wednesday.

He went on to say that it was “not good” to make “an aggressive, insolent and direct threat that Bosnia will be the way it had not been imagined.”

“Such things fuel serious conflicts,” Milanovic said.

He added that he would continue to fight for “the cause of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina” and that he assumed that duty when he was elected Croatian president.

“It is my job,” he added.