New disagreements within the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Serbia, Aleksandar Vranješ, with a meeting and statement in Belgrade, caused a unique reaction from two members of the BiH Presidency. On the other hand, Vranješ has support for his work from the third member of the State Presidency. What does the diplomatic network of Bosnia and Herzegovina look like and what and who do our ambassadors represent in the world?
The members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Bećirović and Željko Komšić, request that Ambassador Vranješ come to Sarajevo for consultations. Their meeting with Aleksandar Vulin is disputed because he is on the American blacklist, as well as Vranješ’s thanks to Vulin for giving scholarships to female students from Sarajevo who glorified Ratko Mladić on social networks.
“On the occasion of the statements made by the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 him for giving scholarships to two female students, we ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina to invite Ambassador Vranješ to urgent consultations in Sarajevo in order to explain his actions”, stated Bećirović and Komšić in their request.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina contacted Vranješ. It was confirmed that Vranješ refused consultations.
“Komšić and Bećirović can personally invite Ambassador Vranješ. Until now, the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina have invited ambassadors for talks/consultations, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in this sense serves only for technical support. The letter, in fact, was not even necessary. I suggest that the members of the Presidency Bećirović and Komšić dismissed ambassador Vranješ by urgent procedure”, reacted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Elmedin Konaković.
Željka Cvijanović, a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, urgently defended the actions of Vranješ.
“It would be better to invite the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the UN, Zlatko Lagumdžija, to determine whether the Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina in New York or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to blame for the falsification of the translation, but also the original of the letter sent by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Also, and to determine why such a forged letter was released to the media before the original version reached the person for whom it was intended,” Cvijanović believes.
Ambassador Vranješ also commented on the whole case. He says that he received support for his work from Cvijanović. He believes that he did not commit any offense.
“It is a problem for them if the Serbian ambassadors go beyond their narrative, their policies, and in this way they want to exert a certain kind of pressure, to send messages to the Serbian ambassadors that something will happen to them, that they will be attacked in this way or whatever. I I want to tell them that all their actions are futile,” said Vranješ.
The Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina can dismiss the ambassador if there is a unified position. Obviously that won’t happen. The ambassadors of Bosnia and Herzegovina thus, all over the world, represent the policies that put them in that position.
“Unfortunately, this is an illustration, I would say, of the diplomatic image of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where it is shown that they are only exponents of ethnic policies and ethnic rulers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that they do not care about a common position, which does not exist,” says the political analyst Tanja Topic.
It is not the first time that BiH diplomacy is mentioned in a negative context. It is obvious that in Bosnia and Herzegovina there are three forms of diplomacy that are formed on the basis of party narratives. Diplomacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s way.
