CVIJANOVIĆ: NO ONE CAN DISMISS AMBASSADORS FROM RANKS OF SERBIAN PEOPLE

BANJA LUKA, APRIL 29 /SRNA/ - The Serbian member of the Presidency, Željka Cvijanović, said that no ambassador from the ranks of the Serbian people will be dismissed and that the Minister of Defense in the Council of Ministers, Zukan Helez, has no right to call for anyone's dismissal.

"Neither Vranješ nor any other ambassador appointed in accordance with the procedure in Republika Srpska, where the President of Srpska proposes a candidate, who is then proposed at the Presidency session, has acted against BiH nor undermined the equality of the peoples and the Constitution of BiH, unlike his colleagues," said Cvijanović. She emphasized that ambassadors appointed from the ranks of the Serbian people will remain in their positions and will not be dismissed by Helez, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Council of Ministers, Elmedin Konaković, or the other two members of the BiH Presidency. "A great service for BiH and an opportunity to exit the current crisis that is destroying BiH would be for Konaković and Helez to leave the political scene and make room for someone who could be professional and who will not spread hatred and lies like they have done," said Cvijanović. She emphasized that when selecting ambassadors, a compromise is always made in the BiH Presidency to vote for them in a package, and because of this, she was obliged to support the proposals for the ambassadors from the other two members of the Presidency, with whose proposals she does not agree at all. "Over the past 30 years, Bosniaks have heavily privatized foreign policy and the diplomatic-consular network, and they have used it all the time not to work in the interest of everyone in BiH, but exclusively against the interests of Serbs and Croats," said Cvijanović. She pointed out that this has led to a situation where the state almost no longer exists, lacking internal policy, cohesion, mutual understanding, with a high level of distrust. However, there are interventions from foreigners, such as Christian Schmidt, but also from his legitimately elected predecessors, who have turned BiH into an experiment that cannot survive. "A reality has been created that is not grounded in the Constitution. We are living in something that is a modification of the Dayton Agreement, and all those who protect it have, in some way, been sanctioned or labeled as guilty," concluded Cvijanović.