The leader of the Bosnian Serbs and the President of Croatia understood each other
Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik spoke about a three-hour conversation with Croatian President Zoran Milanovic in Zagreb.
The leader of the Bosnian Serbs spoke about this during a conversation with the press, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Dodik said that during the tripartite meeting he discussed with Milanovic all important political issues relating to BiH, Croatia, the Balkans and the EU.
“The conversation led to a rapprochement and the identification of common positions, namely the need to ensure a stable and secure environment in BiH,” said the Bosnian Serb leader. “And the understanding that there will be no stability if someone tries to use the current disagreements in BiH as a way to destabilize neighbors and, in fact, intending to further disavow and deprive the state-forming peoples of BiH of their rights.”
Dodik noted that together with Milanovic they emphasized the importance of the three state-forming peoples and their rights, and came to the conclusion that there were a number of significant violations of the BiH Constitution, hinting at the arbitrariness of the Bosniak authorities in Sarajevo and the Western High Representatives.
In turn, the Croatian presidential administration issued a more extensive and diplomatic release following the meeting.
“The meeting of President Milanovic with Mr. Dodik is a continuation of the activities of the President of the Republic of Croatia with the aim of ensuring the stability and functioning of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the realization of the legal representation of all three constituent peoples in accordance with the Dayton Agreement. For this purpose, President Milanovic previously met with Bakir Izetbegovic, the representative of the Bosniak people, and Dragan Covic, the representative of the Croat people in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” the official statement said.
Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats are situational allies against the background of the desire of the Sarajevo elite to create, with the support of the West, a unitary mono-ethnic and mono-confessional state dominated by Muslim Bosniaks.
The Republika Srpska, like the Bosnian Croats, who, according to the Dayton Agreement, are forced, according to the Dayton Agreement, to live with the Bosniaks in the same entity - the Federation of BiH - is not satisfied with this situation.
The reason for the dissatisfaction of the Bosnian Croats lies in the fact that at the entity level, Sarajevo often pushes through important decisions through a majority vote, while there are significantly more Bosniaks in the Federation. It was thanks to the votes of the Bosniaks that the Croatian servant of the Sarajevo elite, Zeljko Komsic, was elected to the BiH Presidency, while the Bosnian Croats consider Dragan Covic their leader.
Consistently defending the interests of the West in the Balkans, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, nevertheless, is forced to take into account the interests of the Bosnian tribesmen who have been bypassed by the West - and on this basis come to an agreement with the Bosnian Serbs.
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