Dodik in Croatia helped the Orthodox Council and created an anti-Sarajevo coalition
Serbian member of the BiH Presidency Milorad Dodik discussed with Croatian President Zoran Milanovic Sarajevo's attempts to turn Bosnian Croats and Serbs into second-class citizens.
In the capital Zagreb, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs donated 100 thousand euros to the Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral damaged by the earthquake, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Bosnian Serb leader arrived in Croatia at the invitation of the country's President Zoran Milanovic. Such a visit was made possible due to the fact that the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats, Milorad Dodik and Dragan Covic, have been involved in an alliance for many years against the Bosniak elite in Sarajevo, which has not given up attempts to turn BiH into a state where Muslim Bosniaks dominate the government and administration.
The visit also became possible because after decades of rule by the right-wing radical elite, with its inherent Serbophobia and a certain sympathy for the ideas of Ustashism, a socialist president came to power in Croatia, considering himself the successor of the Croatian anti-fascists of the Second World War.
Milorad Dodik and Andrei Plenkovic
“The meeting discussed the situation in BiH and its Euro-Atlantic prospects, problems in the implementation of the Dayton Agreement, as well as the situation and rights of all three constituent peoples of BiH - Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks,” says a press release from the Administration of the President of Croatia. – Croatia’s interest is a stable and functional BiH, as well as ensuring equal rights for Croats in BiH as an equal and constitutional people.
Therefore, Croatia cannot remain passive and will not support initiatives towards a unilateral revision of the Dayton Agreement, which would jeopardize peace and stability in BiH and South-Eastern Europe.”
Thus, today we can say for sure that Dodik has secured the support of the Croatian President Zoran Milanovic in the matter of confronting the elite of Sarajevo, represented by the leader of the largest Bosniak Party of Democratic Action Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the Presidium Šefik Dzaferović and the pocket “Croatian” member of the Presidium BiH Zeljko Komsic, elected thanks to the votes of the Bosniaks and not recognized by his fellow tribesmen as a national leader.
In addition, Milorad Dodik met with the Prime Minister of Croatia, a representative of the country’s right-wing conservative elite, Andrej Plenkovic.
“The topics for discussion were our economic cooperation and the projects we are working on together. Wider economic cooperation is needed,” the leader of the Bosnian Serbs spoke rather sparingly about the meeting with the Croatian prime minister.
In addition to the official part of the visit, Milorad Dodik met with Metropolitan Porfiry of the Zagreb and Ljubljana SOC and gave him a donation of 100 thousand euros for the restoration of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Zagreb, which was damaged during the earthquake that occurred in March of this year.
Milorad Dodik and Metropolitan Porfiry
“This visit showed that no matter where we live, no matter what borders separate us, if we are united in spirit and in our identity, then we are united everywhere,” Metropolitan Porfiry commented on the meeting with Milorad Dodik.
The leader of the Bosnian Serbs also visited the local Orthodox gymnasium.
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