The foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been privatized, political analyst Adnan Huskic said, commenting for an interview on the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, with whom the Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH Bisera Turkovic met yesterday.
”There should be no diplomatic tact to organize this visit now, at a time when Iran is facing international pressure regarding women’s rights. Admittedly, as you know, BiH voted against the Resolution condemning this behavior of the regime in Tehran. I think that the issue of the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at this moment is just an unnecessary additional problem. Namely, it is clear that here foreign policy is conducted privately, that Mrs. Turkovic evidently, and perhaps with the approval of her own party, conducts her own kind of foreign policy,” Huskic stated.
With every step like this, he adds, we are less close to the European Union (EU).
”It is an anti-European foreign policy. We should be surprised that the EU is still trying to make some kind of arrangement with us and is meeting us, lowering the criteria because we are not showing anything that we are ready to deal more seriously with the process of rapprochement with the EU, at least in terms of harmonizing foreign policy. And it’s not just Ms. Turkovic, let’s remember the meeting between Dodik and Putin and so on… It’s about a privatized foreign policy of certain political actors that only harms the state,” Huskic concluded, Avaz reports.
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