Republika Srpska defeated NATO
Thanks to the principled position of the Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) emerged from the political crisis without compromising its neutrality towards NATO.
BiH will sign the Reform Program and not NATO's annual national plan, as Bosniak and Croat members of the BiH Presidency Zeljko Komsic insisted and Šefik Džaferović confirmed. They confirmed that the Reform Program is not a NATO Accession Action Plan.
“This is not a document that precedes NATO membership. It states that each subsequent step and movement towards membership requires a new decision of the Presidium and the Parliamentary Assembly, and that the decision will be made in accordance with the opinion of all authorities. This is a new quality,” explained the Serbian representative in the Presidium of BiH, Milorad Dodik.
This compromise will finally allow the appointment of a government, without which BiH has been living for 13 months.
Dodik emphasized that in matters of military neutrality she has always followed the example of Serbia.
“We will monitor all forms of cooperation that Serbia has with NATO. We can cooperate, but we do not want to make any contribution to the progress towards integration with NATO,” Dodik said.
Experts consider the Serbs’ principled approach to NATO to be justified, since joining this bloc could lead to the Republika Srpska losing its status as a full-fledged entity within BiH.
During the aggression, NATO aircraft in the 90s of the last century bombed the positions of local Serbs, whom the West intended to force to agree to the international plan for the Bosnian settlement. In two weeks, 3206 sorties were flown, about a thousand bombs were dropped, 13 Tomahawk sea-launched cruise missiles were used, 46 RS military personnel and over 50 civilians were killed, and local residents are still dying from the consequences of using depleted uranium ammunition.
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