The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik published a photo with BiH Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandar Vranješ, with the message that he invited him for consultations and that he responded to him.
“I invited the ambassador for consultations, he responded to me,” wrote Dodik on “Twitter”.
We remind you that the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željko Komšić and Denis Bećirović, earlier today asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina to urgently invite the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia, Aleksandar Vranješ, for consultations in Sarajevo.
“Regarding the statements made by BiH Ambassador in Belgrade, Aleksandar Vranješ, at the meeting with the Director of the Security and Information Agency of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin, and especially after his media statement expressing gratitude to Vulin for giving scholarships to two female students, we ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH that Ambassador Vranješ invited to urgent consultations in Sarajevo to explain his actions,” it is stated in a statement from the BiH Presidency.
Then the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Elmedin Konaković called on the members of the Presidency of BiH – Bećirović and Komšić to dismiss the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vranješ, by urgent procedure.
“I saw today in the media that members of the Presidency of BiH Bećirović and Komšić sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH, which arrived at the Ministry late in the afternoon, and that we are, in fact, being asked to invite Ambassador Vranješ for consultations,” said the Minister Konaković.
He added that the Ministry made contacts and that Ambassador Vranješ announced himself and refused to come to the head office in Sarajevo and to have any talks, reminding how his predecessors behaved similarly, ambassadors who were appointed as personnel appointed by a member of the BiH Presidency from among the Serbian people.
In this context, Konaković points out that Komšić and Bećirović could personally invite Ambassador Vranješ, stating that they, as members of BiH. Presidencies have the right to call for consultations.
“The members of the Presidency have called ambassadors for talks/consultations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in this sense serves only for technical support,” specified BiH head of diplomacy.
He said that the letter was actually not even necessary, saying that he proposed that the members of the Presidency, Bećirović and Komšić, dismiss Ambassador Vranješ as a matter of urgency.
“I remind you that this is a person who has made similar statements before. They voted for his election and, since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina does not have any competence when it comes to sanctions against ambassadors, only the members of the Presidency as a collective body can do that,” Minister Konaković said.
Vranješ previously told Srna news agency that he had spoken with BiH Presidency member Željka Cvijanović and that he had received support for his work.
