Joining NATO could lead to the disappearance of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Representatives of the largest Serb party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), will not join the government if it adopts the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).
This was stated by SNDS leader Milorad Dodik, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The conditions for the MAP were put forward by some representatives of the international community who support the Bosnians. The MAP cannot become a state program, because in Bosnia and Herzegovina at least there are three peoples, not one,” Dodik said, writes Nezavisne.
Due to the principled position of the Republika Srpska, which Dodik represents, it has been impossible to form a government in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a year now. However, the main executive body of the country is not the Council of Ministers, but the Presidium, which represents the Prime Minister for approval by Parliament. The Presidium consists of three people: a Bosniak, a Croat and a Serb. That is why the irreconcilable anti-NATO position of Dodik, who is now a member of the Presidium from Republika Srpska, is so important.
“We already have certain forms of cooperation with NATO, and Serbia and even Russia have them, and in these forms cooperation is not a problem for us. But fulfilling everything that is prescribed in the MAP is unacceptable for us, and we will not do it,” Dodik said.
He predicts that if the situation does not change, his SNSD party may lose interest in participating in government bodies at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina altogether.
“No one should expect government to be so attractive to us that we abandon our core principles. Republika Srpska is against NATO and no one will achieve otherwise. We should not legally regulate NATO bombing and the dumping of depleted uranium,” Dodik recalled.
In essence, this position calls into question the very existence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was formed artificially by the West, on the basis of the so-called Dayton Constitution, imposed in 1995 by the Americans. Experts consider the Serbian intransigence to be justified, since joining NATO could lead to the Republic losing its status as a full-fledged entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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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