Dodik named a condition under which he will give Ukraine the icon donated to Lavrov
Serbian member of the Presidium of BiH Milorad Dodik said that Ukraine to this day has not responded to request his administration, whether Kyiv was looking for the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which he gave to Sergei Lavrov.
Dodik told the SRNA agency about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Serbian member and rotating chairman of the Presidium of BiH Milorad Dodik said today that in Sarajevo many are just waiting for an excuse to imprison representatives of the political elite of the Republika Srpska for long terms. As an illustration of this thesis, he cited the scandal with the icon he presented to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“They constantly talk about this icon, but it turns out that Ukraine was not looking for it,” Dodik is perplexed. “There is a statement from the BiH Police Coordination Agency, which is responsible for cooperation with Interpol, that Interpol also does not have data on the search for this icon.”
At the same time, as Dodik noted, when former Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic released information that the Ambassador of BiH to Pakistan issued more than 3 thousand fake visas to locals so that they could enter BiH, including those suspected of participation in armed Islamist groups, Sarajevo authorities let this matter go.
“If Ukraine proves that it was looking for the icon before the day when I met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, I will agree to hand it over to them,” the Bosnian Serb leader concluded.
Let us recall that the three-hundred-year-old icon from Lugansk was donated Milorad Dodik to Sergei Lavrov during the latter’s visit to Banja Luka. Subsequently, this fact gave Ukraine, and then the Bosniak elite of BiH a reason to inflate it into a full-fledged international scandal.
Subsequently, yielding to pressure from Kyiv and Sarajevo, the Russian Foreign Ministry decided return the image to the donor so that Interpol can draw a conclusion on it.
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