DODIK: EMBASSIES FAILED TO REACT TO SCHMIDT'S VIOLATIONS OF CONSTITUTION AND DAYTON AGREEMENT

BANJA LUKA, NOVEMBER 21 /SRNA/ – SNSD President Milorad Dodik stated that Christian Schmidt is an occupier in BiH who has violated the BiH Constitution and the Dayton Peace Agreement, and that the embassies of Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as EU representatives, failed to respond to it.

"It is true that he demonstrated unreasonable force on behalf of the international factor, and those embassies did not react at all," Dodik told reporters in Banja Luka. Commenting on the reactions of these embassies to the fact that Deputy Chair of the BiH Council of Ministers Staša Košarac sent Schmidt a Nazi Germany army helmet along with a letter entitled "A Letter to the Occupier," Dodik said he does not understand why they reacted, since Republika Srpska has every right to defend itself. "He /Schmidt/ is an occupier, a descendant of those formations that inflicted enormous losses on Serbs in 1941. They killed us, and now he has come here to do the same thing in a more sophisticated way – to occupy this territory," Dodik said. He added that such intentions aim at dismantling Republika Srpska, erasing Serbian history, and undermining the legal and democratic will. "We fought very hard to secure our democratic right to choose, and then along comes a German who is unelected. We read the German press, which says he attended an event honoring the wartime pilots of Hitler's air force. He sympathizes with these pilots," Dodik stated. He asked why those embassies are angry and why they did not oppose Schmidt when he violated the Constitution and the law, adding that this shows they intentionally helped Schmidt in the occupation of BiH. "I am completely surprised by the reaction of the American representatives, because /US President Donald/ Trump says he will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. What is this now, I have no idea. But we will check," Dodik said. He added that whatever an American president says has always been treated as an "unwritten law". "Košarac has the right to his own stance. Maybe it is finally time for the Germans to take away the remnants they left here, which have been very harmful for us," Dodik concluded.