DODIK: CONVEY OUR CONCERN ABOUT IRAN’S GROWING PRESENCE IN BiH

BUDAPEST, SEPTEMBER 4 /SRNA/ – Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik today asked Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó to convey Republika Srpska's concern regarding the growing presence of Iran in BiH.

Dodik pointed out that Iran had previously organised training centres in BiH, and that the Iranian Embassy in Sarajevo once had 470 employees, which was the largest staff in BiH. "Europe has been lying to us for 30 years and trying to create a unitary BiH, which is essentially an Islamic state," Dodik said at the joint press conference. He has added that they have succeeded in devastating the Croat Catholic people, who are becoming fewer in BiH due to European measures, while the Serbs have been placed in a position where they are considered to be subordinated to the will of the Muslims. He also emphasized that the Serbs had been naive about the reforms coming from Brussels, which in reality was the unitarization of BiH. "We cannot allow ourselves to move along the path of creating an Islamic state in the heart of Europe by eliminating Republika Srpska and removing the Serb people from BiH," Dodik stressed.