SRPSKA INTERESTED IN SLOVENIA'S ECONOMY, BUT NOT IN ITS POLITICS

LAKTAŠI, NOVEMBER 23 /SRNA/ - SNSD leader Milorad Dodik said today that dozens of Slovenian entrepreneurs are operating very successfully in Republika Srpska, and that Srpska is increasingly interested in cooperating with them, even when it comes to introducing additional benefits.

Dodik stated that he has no interest in Slovenia as a country, nor in the sanctions it has imposed on him. "Slovenians are undesirable from a political standpoint, a completely misguided nation when it comes to politics, but kudos to them for their economy," Dodik told reporters in Laktaši. He emphasized that Republika Srpska is focused on development, fighting for its constitutional position and rights, and that there is no need for representatives of Slovenia, who live under the illusion of neoliberal values that have no relevance to real life, to "lecture" Srpska. "If anyone destroyed Yugoslavia, it was Slovenia, and now they lecture us here about democracy and everything else. Cynicism never prevails," Dodik concluded.