The pro-Western press in Sarajevo is irritated by the visit of the Bosnian speaker to Russia
Relations between Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will reach a new level thanks to inter-parliamentary dialogue.
This was announced at today’s meeting in Moscow between the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko, and the Chairman of the House of Peoples of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dragan Covic, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The last time we came to your country during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, we were greatly impressed by the organization of the tournament in the Russian Federation. I would like our current meeting to allow us to raise relations between the countries to a new, qualitative level,” Parlamentskaya Gazeta quotes Covic.
“We would like you to remember your visit as warmly as we remember our visit to Sarajevo in 2018,” Matvienko said.
Note that the Bosnian Sarajevo Times claims that Matvienko’s speech in the House of Peoples of the Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly in 2018 “turned into a political scandal with numerous negative reactions.”
The publication emphasizes that the Russian speaker called the Bosnian wars of the 90s civil, criticized Montenegro for joining NATO and called for the preservation of broad autonomy of the entities, one of which is the Republika Srpska.
During Covic’s official stay in Moscow, it is also planned to visit MGIMO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as give a lecture at the Balkan Club of the Center for Southeast European Studies.
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