The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, stated today in Banja Luka that Bosnia and Herzegovina will not sign any agreement on the acceptance of migrants from any area.
“This is unacceptable for us. It was clear to us when the British Foreign Secretary came to Sarajevo that this was the main issue. No support for Bosnia, for democratic processes, that was the main issue to feel the atmosphere,” said Dodik.
He added that “the British minister, when he was in Sarajevo, was told by Muslims that it was OK”.
If they want to settle them illegally in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dodik said – that is their problem, adding that they will not be able to do so in Republika Srpska.
Dodik also said that during the migrant crisis, Republika Srpska did not allow them to be “parked” in this area.
“We said they were not welcome here and provided them with a quick pass. There is no reason to change our approach, no matter how much we hear the British Prime Minister who never misses an opportunity to say that BiH should accept their delinquent migrants,” Dodik told reporters in Banja Luka.
As he stated, “they would choose the good ones and keep them, and throw out the bad ones, the quasi-criminals and criminals, so that we could deal with them, and then they would constantly say that we are an unstable area.”
Dodik said that the British Foreign Secretary also went to a meeting with the opposition from Republika Srpska where the story of migrants was mentioned, but that they would not admit it.
At that time, Dodik added, the British Minister said that this was the main policy that Britain would deal with in the coming years and that they saw BiH as a partner.
He pointed out that the leaders of the PDP, Draško Stanivuković and the SDS, Milan Miličević, who were sitting where it was said that policies of introducing migrants from Great Britain should be implemented for BiH, had to react and know that the Republika Srpska participates in decision-making in BiH and if they come, then the obligation is also assumed for the Republika Srpska.
“They did not react. Things were revealed when the minister, I can assume, probably returned to Britain and told his prime minister – everything is ok, that’s why the prime minister said so clearly ‘BiH is ok’. It is not ok, I am telling him that it will not be,” said Dodik, Srna reports.
