 Personally handed in by Perić on 15 April 2015 to the President of the Republic of Croatia, Ivo Josipović, at a meeting in Mostar Cathedral, the bishop referred to "the right of Serbs to have 'their own' entity when appealing for parts of Bosnia to be defined as [an ethnic Croat] region in which institutions, schools, cultural and public health bodies, and banks, would be governed by Croats.… Josipovic received the memorandum and never expressed any opposition to its political contents.