Miloš Šolaja, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Banja Luka, assessed that the participation of the highest officials of Republika Srpska in the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya is extremely important for Republika Srpska. He emphasized that multilateral meetings are always productive as they provide an opportunity to present themselves as a subject of international political relations, to express their views, problems, questions, and everything related to Republika Srpska.
Šolaja stated that the participation in the forum in Antalya represents an expansion of connections with many countries, from which various forms of political and economic cooperation could arise.
He noted that there are prejudices about Republika Srpska in many regions and countries, linked to the process of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia and the wartime period.
“It is significant for Republika Srpska to present itself at such diplomatic forums as an organized and modernly arranged political system that is part of BiH, but at the same time has a high degree of autonomy, which in some international literature is even referred to as semi-independence,” concluded Šolaja.
The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, and the Serb member of the BiH Presidency, Željka Cvijanović, in Antalya, discussed with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
Dodik and Cvijanović also met with Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar, as well as with the EU’s Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Miroslav Lajčak.
The three-day Diplomatic Forum in Antalya, which started on Friday, March 1st, will be closed today by the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
Source: RTRS
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