Stop clinging to the dead Dayton Agreements - political scientist
The documents on the creation of Bosnia and Herzegovina signed at the American military base in Dayton no longer correspond to the current state of affairs in the Balkans.
The director of the Progressive Policy Foundation, founder of the project, writes about this in an article on the pages of Nezavisimaya Gazeta Balkanist.ru Oleg Bondarenko.
He draws attention to the fact that Bosnia and Herzegovina, a formally recognized state, is in fact a territory divided along the border and an artificial union of north and south - Orthodox Serbs and Muslim Bosniaks with a small admixture of Catholic Croats, who are increasingly cooperating with the Serbs to resolve their own issues .
At the same time, in recent years there has been an active process of selecting powers from the Republika Srpska - up to the creation of a formally common army, divided along ethnic lines, but under a single leadership in Sarajevo.
At the same time, the expert believes that today it is difficult to imagine the exit of the Republika Srpska from BiH, but believes that this would be a worthy response to the policy of demarcation in Kosovo, if suddenly such a plan were again on the agenda.
“Just the other day, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that the EU will continue to put pressure on Belgrade to recognize Kosovo, promising in return accession to the European Union. But, judging by survey data, the majority of Serbs are no longer eager to join the EU: the number of those who want to quickly join the European Union has become smaller than those who doubt the advisability of such a step. And given the fact that Serbia is currently in an election campaign, we can hardly expect the idea of demarcating Kosovo to return to the current agenda in the near future,” the publication notes.
The author believes that the only chance to return to dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is to cancel the imposed duties and dissolve the Kosovo “army” created in defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
“Then it will be possible to start discussing again the models of the Kosovo “delimitation” policy, one of the first supporters of which was Dodik. In this way, he saw the only way for Republika Srpska to return to Serbia, and not to continue to defend the dead Dayton Agreements, to which, like resolution 1244 on Kosovo, all pro-Serbian forces, including Moscow, continue to cling.
Only those who are completely satisfied with them can afford to refer to their lack of alternatives. In practice, the current situation of a creeping change in the status quo is less and less consistent with the interests of all participants in the great Balkan game. And the winner will be the one who is the first to formulate and propose new working rules for everyone,” Bondarenko sums up.
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