“If Bosnians and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina are in favor of an independent Kosovo, how will they prevent the independence of the Republika Srpska?”

Belgrade – Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić stated that the representatives of Bosnians and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina are working directly against their interests by voting for Kosovo independence.

Source: Beta Monday, September 21, 2020 | 07:23

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According to him, this eliminates the arguments against the independence of the Republika Srpska.

“They are working directly against themselves, by wanting to recognize Kosovo, they are losing any argument whereby anyone could challenge the Republika Srpska’s right to independence,” Dacic said on Pink television.

Dacic said that Kosovo was a province of Serbia and that Badinter’s international commission “clearly said that Yugoslavia would disintegrate along the borders of the republic and did not mention the provinces.”

“If you select a province now, on the basis of which you will prohibit an entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina from declaring its independence,” Dacic asked.

He said that Serbia’s previous leadership, led by Vojislav Kostunica and Boris Tadic, “made a mistake” because Kosovo’s declaration of independence was not related to the independence of the Republika Srpska.

Then we broke kiosks and set fire to embassies, the only thing we told them (to the western countries) was that they could do whatever they wanted. The only thing that could concern the international community could be to link that issue (the independence of Kosovo) with the Republika Srpska. “Dacic stated.

Bosnian and Croatian members of the Bosnia and Herzegovina presidency, Sefik Dzaferovic and Zeljko Komsic, voted on Thursday in favor of the country recognizing Kosovo’s independence, while Serbian member of the presidency Milorad Dodik opposed.

Dacic said tonight that the vote on Kosovo’s independence came after Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj sent a letter to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Minister on September 8, urging the country to recognize the independence of Kosovo.

“She (Haradinaj) says in the letter that the agreement in Washington allows mutual recognition of Israel and Kosovo, and cordially requests the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to consider recognition of Kosovo,” Dacic stated.

He added that Pristina was abusing the Washington agreement in this way.

They probably sent such letters to many other countries as well. This invitation to Bosnia and Herzegovina is undoubtedly an abuse of the Washington agreement. Serbia should stop pressing against the independence of Kosovo, and they will call other countries and present that it is part of the agreement that other countries recognize Kosovo, “Dacic said.

He added that he “does not believe” that the question of the recognition of the independence of Kosovo has been included in the agenda of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the basis of that invitation, but evaluated that it was “part of another policy”.

Dacic said that “Europe ignores the fact” that Bakir Izetbegovic’s Democratic Action Party “has pursued a policy based on Alija Izetbegovic’s Islamic Declaration” for decades.

“That policy can be read in one sentence: an Islamic state cannot be realized, and they are for an Islamic state from Morocco to Indonesia, while Muslims are not in the majority. And there is no coexistence with other forms of social life,” Dacic said.

For Komsic, the Croatian member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dacic said that “the figure was chosen by the votes of the Muslims, a Croat at the request of the Muslims.”