The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said that he sincerely expects and believes that the European Council will make a decision on starting membership negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but he said that one cannot join the EU as a slave and a colony.
Dodik pointed out that the negotiation process means harmonizing BiH legislation with EU legislation, but this raises a key question for the future – who is the legislator in this country?
“For Republika Srpska, these are legitimate, democratically elected representatives of the people and not a foreigner who falsely presents himself. Will the EU negotiate with democratic institutions or an illegitimate usurper? I see that in one part of the Bosniak elite, politics is conducted by running away every time it is not right they will. Will they negotiate with the EU in the same way,” said Dodik.
He reminded that yesterday Bosniak representatives ran away from the parliament with the clear aim of not discussing the Electoral Law because they are waiting for an imposition from Christian Schmidt, and that is the only truth.
“I tell you for the hundredth time, the Republika Srpska will not agree to imposition,” Dodik said on the “X” social network.
For Republika Srpska, he says, the only clothes he wants to be clothed in are those woven by democratic institutions, the Constitution and the Dayton Agreement.
“For us, hiding under the skirt of Schmidt is absolutely unacceptable. You cannot join the EU as a slave and as a colony because it is a community of free people and sovereign states,” Dodik stressed.
He said that the Bosniak people do not want others to make decisions for them because their politicians are afraid to take responsibility.
“There is no happiness for us in the dictates of any foreigner who does not share our happiness or our pain – neither can, nor knows how. Why should we be the only country in Europe, probably in the world, that is asked to be subjects of a foreigner days, we are trying to agree on changes that would improve the electoral process and enable the legitimate representation of all three peoples, but Bosniak politicians run away from it because it is not in their interest,” said Dodik.
He said that it is fair for them to say once and for all whether they want to build a state with the Serbian people, according to everyone’s standards, or whether they want to tear it apart according to the standards of foreigners?
“And a lot more of those hackneyed phrases that the Republika Srpska and I are this or that. We are the ones pulling this stranded ship to a peaceful harbor. If we weren’t there, you would destroy each other. Can you once accept that Bosnia and Herzegovina can only exist if it belongs to everyone equally and to no one more than others. It does not exist when you want to give the rights of others to yourself, and it does not exist when you carry the rights of your people under someone else’s skirt,” emphasized Dodik.
