The President of a NATO member country blocked the admission of Finland and Sweden

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic – Photo: RT

The President of Croatia has stopped NATO admit Sweden and Finland if neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina do not reform their electoral laws, Russia’s Russia Today (RT) Radio reported.

“The Croatian parliament cannot ratify any country’s NATO membership until the electoral laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina are revised,” Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said in Zagreb on April 26. after it was announced that Finland and Sweden may apply to join NATO next month.

“Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO can be discussed, but it is a very dangerous adventure,” he stressed.

However, President Milanovic stressed that the decision to accept Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO was not in his hands, but in the parliament’s.

Croatia’s biggest disagreement is the current electoral system in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1995, the ethnic Croat community in the country was granted equal rights under the 1995 constitution to end the civil war.

Croatia emphasized the need to update the electoral law so that Bosnian Croats could elect their own representatives, as opposed to the current practice of having Croats representatives elected by the Bosnian Muslim community. , also known as Bosniak.

Croatia became a member of NATO in 2009 and joined the European Union (EU) in 2013, when Milanovic was prime minister. Milanovic has been president since October 2020.