Elmedin Konakovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bosnia and Herzegovina, says the US is its most important political partner despite having differing stances on the war in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

“That doesn’t mean that we agree with everything they [the US] are doing. I’m expecting the authorities from the US to react and to insist actually on Israeli side to stop this; to stop the killings in Palestine,” he urged.

“We have evidence from before that this can happen, even under not-so-desirable circumstances. [At the end of Bosnia’s war] they brought our authorities with the war criminals at that time and mediated in our negotiating of the future of our country, but that’s because there was willingness on both sides, ours and theirs to stop the war,” he said.

He added that while “it’s not easy”, it is possible and “much better than to see all those pictures of hundreds of children dying every day.”