BOSNIAK PRIVATIZATION OF BiH HAS BECOME DISGUSTING

BANJA LUKA, JANUARY 12 /SRNA/ – SNSD leader Milorad Dodik said that there is no one who could speak on behalf of Republika Srpska about its abolition and that the Bosniak privatization of BiH has become disgusting.

"Republika Srpska is permanent," Dodik stressed. He pointed out that global relations are such that anything is possible except the abolition of the entities, commenting on the statement by Defense Minister in the Council of Ministers Zukan Helez that “the entities should be abolished.” "We have nothing against talking about abolition; let it be whatever topic he wants, I just don't know what will ultimately be abolished. Although much has changed in the world, they are clinging to the same narrative they had two years ago," Dodik told reporters in Banja Luka. He said that within the Armed Forces of BiH there is a minister and two equal deputies, without whom no ministerial decision can be made, yet Bosniaks persistently deny this. "The same applies to foreign affairs: there is no unified foreign policy, and it is agreed upon within the BiH Presidency. The foreign minister acts independently, privately conducting foreign policy in at least some cases on behalf of the Bosniaks. This is a complete breakdown, and Republika Srpska is not bothered by it," Dodik emphasized. He added that when this is combined with a truncated Constitutional Court of BiH, in which three foreigners and two Bosniaks make decisions, what is unfolding is a struggle to preserve their concept. Dodik noted that the two entities first reached an agreement in Geneva and later in New York, and that BiH was created on the basis of those agreements. "How, then, is it possible to abolish something that created their BiH?" Dodik asked. Referring to statements by former head of the Islamic Community in BiH Mustafa Cerić about establishing a "Bosnian Orthodox Church," Dodik said this was an Ustaša demand and that there were attempts to implement it in BiH during the Independent State of Croatia /NDH/. He recalled that Cerić had said that "Serbs, if they do not like the Bosnia they want, can go to Serbia and take with them on their opanak /shoes/ only as much soil as sticks to them". "Usually, very little soil sticks to opanak, but much more sticks to shoes. So when we pull away, we will pull away 49 percent and leave BiH," Dodik said.