The President of Republika Srpska entity, Milorad Dodik, stated that NATO’s latest annual report presented a one-sided view of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it tends to ignore the views of the RS, which may lead to reconsideration of its participation in the reform processes defined by the Reform Program.
Dodik said that in NATO’s latest annual report, in addition to realistically highlighting the NATO alliance’s cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina within the framework of the Reform Program, positions are still expressed that reflect views contrary to the Reform Program, the Cabinet of the President of Republika Srpska announced.
“The authors of the report, whose signatory is the Secretary General of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, point out that Bosnia and Herzegovina is “the only country that participates in the Action Plan for membership /MAP/ in NATO” and that “Bosnia and Herzegovina aspires to join the Alliance,” Dodik said. .
According to him, by presenting such positions which represent the “one-sided view of the Alliance and express the aspirations of political Sarajevo and the FBiH, they ignore the historical facts of the bombing of the Serbian people and the placing of them on one side in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and against the Serbs” – they show that the Alliance continues with its unilateral politics and presents only them with appropriate evaluations and uses terms that do not clearly define their position.
Dodik pointed out that Bosnia and Herzegovina is not in the Action Plan for membership because it has never submitted any Annual National Program (ANP) but has submitted a Reform Program that does not prejudge membership in the Alliance, but only cooperation and there is no unified political aspiration in Bosnia and Herzegovina towards joining Alliance.
“It is extremely tendentious and ill-intentioned to ignore the views of the Republika Srpska without whose consent it is not even a member of the Alliance, as well as disrespecting the Republika Srpska’s position on neutrality in conflicts of any kind,” emphasized Dodik.
According to him, this kind of behavior of the NATO alliance can lead to the questioning of the participation of Republika Srpska in the reform processes defined by the Reform Program and its withdrawal.
