German parliamentarians, although it was announced, did not discuss the Draft Resolution entitled “Support Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on the Path to a Better Future” three days ago. In the draft of this resolution, the parties of the ruling coalition ask the German government for increased engagement in BiH in order to react to the growing tensions and separatist tendencies and prevent the political crisis from turning into a security crisis.
Leaders of SNSD Milorad Dodik and HDZ Dragan Covic are said to be most responsible for the current problems in BiH. However, a number of German SDP representatives are asking for the name of SDA leader Bakir Izetbegovic to be added.
At the request of the working group in charge of European issues, the resolution was returned for revision, because the members of this authority, including SDP delegate Josip Juratovic, demanded its amendment and that all three ethnonational leaders be named as most responsible for the crisis in the country.
Josip Juratovic, SDP representative in the Bundestag said:”Bakir Izetbegovic is, after all, one of the three participants in nationalism that keeps BiH in the prison of that nationalism and the situation where it is impossible to go further because people are in fear of war, who are which all three sides are constantly calling for. Each in their own way.”
The resolution to be debated in the Bundestag met with harshreactions in BiH.
On Twitter, Milorad Dodik questioned the right of the Bundestag to deal with the situation in BiH.
”Whence the right of the delegates in the Bundestag to deal with us, who gave them the mandate? If they really want to help, then don’t interfere with our internal affairs. They decided in advance that Serbs and Croats were to blame for the situation in BiH,” Dodik stated in the tweet.
SDA delegate in the state parliament Semsudin Mehmedovic is also against the resolution, which would also include the name of Bakir Izetbegovic, who says that Izetbegovic cannot be put on the same level as Dodik and Covic.
”What Juratovic is doing is a great help to Serbia and Croatia, a great help to Vucic, who will say – ‘you see, Serbia and Dodik are not to blame, Izetbegovic is to blame.’ If Bakir is the same as Dodik and Covic, then he is preparing to annex parts of Croatia and Serbia to BiH,” Mehmedovic said.
Unlike Dodik and Mehmedovic, former BiH Minister of Foreign Affairs, PDP member Igor Crnadak, sees nothing controversial in the resolution.
Igor Crnadak, PDP
”Sometimes we don’t like to hear what others say if we don’t like it. But I don’t see any bad intent in what we’ve seen. I repeat once again, first of all, the desire for Germany, as well as Europe, to be more present and to influence the improvement of relations in BiH is clearly recognized here.”
The resolution on BiH proposed by members of the ruling coalition led by the SDP is on the agenda of the German Parliament in the second half of this month or early next month, BHRT writes.
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