Zagreb – Only an hour’s drive south of the Croatian capital is Bosnia. Around this part of Bosnia stretching a border region called Krajina, as in the local language means border.

Serbs have lived for hundreds of years. They were deployed as soldiers, among other things to prevent the Ottomans – Turks – from moving farther north and into the Habsburg Empire, the predecessor to Austria.

It was in the Krajina region of Croatia that the Serbs in the late 1980s and early 1990s with support from Serbia began the revolt that led to war in Croatia from 1991 to 95th

Croatia as a bulwark Now it might Croatia reversed compared to the Krajina region to act as a defense wall against the unrest that simmers further south in the Balkans.

– I see Croatia as a cordon sanitaire, says human rights defenders and politician Ivan Zvonimir Cicak in Zagreb. Cordon sanitaire is originally a ring to protect against infection.

His assessment of the countries further south are not characterized by peaceful expression:

– Bosnia on the brink of war, Serbia thinks of war, in Kosovo there is turmoil and Macedonia is unstable.

In particular, developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as you are aware of. Concern is so great that it can almost be felt in Zagreb.

threatens secession “The crazy Dodik” is an expression that Ivan Zvonimir Cicak use of Milorad Dodik, who is Serbian leader in Bosnia. He has in recent years come up with more and more threatening to tear loose the Serbian part of Bosnia.

human rights defenders, head of the Croatian branch of the Helsinki Committee is also concerned about statements that were recently made by the Foreign Minister of Serbia.

opinions were about a Greater Serbia, and it is certainly not something you are excited to hear the Balkans, unless you are a Serb nationalist.

The Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremi? else comes from the moderate Democratic Party.

Serbia also plays a role in the unrest in northern Kosovo, where Serbs are protesting against the independent Kosovo.

EU membership has long prospects While Croatia has come so far from being an EU member, because, according to Ivan Zvonimir Cicak that both U.S. and EU wanted it for security policy reasons.

Croatia should include a good example for other Balkan countries.

After the war in Kosovo in 1998 and 99, all Balkan countries promised that they would join the EU – there was no mention of a timetable. But the recent turmoil in both Kosovo and Bosnia makes it difficult to see when they and Serbia can join the EU.

Slovenia joined the EU in 2004, but Slovenia is so small and as close located in the Balkans against Austria and Italy that it plays no security policy role.

About Croatia’s situation today, says the Croatian Minister for European Affairs Mr. Mimica to DR News:

– We will not create a cordon sanitaire or a European border region.

the Croatian Minister for Europe, returning to the starting point has been the EU’s – namely keeping the peace in Europe after the Second World War.

– We need stability and prosperity, and it gives us only if everyone in the region join the EU, says Mr. Mimica.

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