The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, stated that Republika Srpska does not want conflict but rather the restoration of rights guaranteed by the Dayton Agreement and the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“We want to annul all the measures imposed by foreign interventionism that exploited the historical moment and the power of the West to our detriment,” Dodik said in an interview with the Swiss weekly Weltwoche.
He emphasized that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a creation imposed by major powers who refuse to acknowledge their mistake in establishing such a country.
“The Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a deception and an experiment. It had no historical or contemporary basis for reunifying as a single country, no matter what it is called. The fact that 30 years after the civil war, things in BiH still do not function proves me right,” Dodik said.
He stressed that there is no plan for secession, and that Republika Srpska is not an advocate of such a solution but opposes all forms of imposition.
Dodik noted that Srpska is seeking a possible peaceful model.
“But if we cannot create a constitutionally sustainable Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a peaceful separation is the only solution,” Dodik stated.
He reiterated that Republika Srpska does not seek NATO membership, as NATO bombed the Serbian people in both Srpska and Serbia.
“The West is trying to maintain BiH as a mini Yugoslavia”
Dodik pointed out that the general term for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Tito’s Yugoslavia was that it was a “mini Yugoslavia,” which the West is now trying to maintain with a different power dynamic—where Muslims are the majority, followed by Serbs and Croats.
“The Croats are disappearing, and there is a desire for Muslim domination by centralizing Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Serbs will not accept that,” Dodik emphasized.
The President of Srpska added that even in communist Bosnia, the concept of “brotherhood and unity” lasted for a time but eventually led to conflicts and suffering, which makes it rational to try something different.
“There was no historical basis for its creation. Thirty years after the conflict, things still do not function in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We can camouflage the issues, but 30 years later, we will realize that we have not laid the foundations for a functional state,” Dodik remarked.
Dodik pointed out that current U.S. President Joe Biden, while he was a congressman, built his political career on lies about the Serbs.
“I know that as long as people like him sit in the U.S. administration, it will be impossible to have a rational conversation about Bosnia and Herzegovina. They built their careers on this,” Dodik said.
He also pointed out the attempts by Bosniaks to prevent Republika Srpska from celebrating January 9th as Republic Day.
“This is an inquisitorial court against us, the Serbs,” Dodik emphasized.
He noted that the Constitutional Court of BiH operates based on rules set by three foreign judges and two Bosniaks.
“We do not have a law on the Constitutional Court, and every day we expect some new innovation, some stupidity that further divides Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is not Milorad Dodik dividing Bosnia, it is being divided by foreigners, the judges of the Constitutional Court of BiH, and the fake High Representative Christian Schmidt. Schmidt was sent here because they didn’t know what to do with him in Germany,” Dodik pointed out.
The interview with President Dodik was conducted by Roger Köppel, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Swiss weekly Weltwoche.
Source: RTRS
