The manifestation of the anti-Bosnian pattern in Canada has failed. Ambassador Aleksandar Bogdanić’s lobbying against his own state in the Office of the Mayor of Ottawa was unsuccessful. In vain, he denied national holidays, including the Independence Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He hid the state flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina provided by the Bosnian and Herzegovinian community, which was registered as state property. In doing so, he prevented the raising of the Bosnia and Herzegovina flag in front of Ottawa City Hall. However, his anti-Bosnian project failed, it was stated by the Institute for Genocide Research in Canada.
The Mayor of Ottawa, Mark Sutcliffe, congratulated citizens on March 1, the Independence Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In his message, the Mayor of Canada’s capital, Mark Sutcliffe, expressed his gratitude to the Bosnian and Herzegovinian community for its contribution to Ottawa and for the preservation of Bosnian and Herzegovinian culture.
“In the name of the members of the Ottawa City Council, I have the great pleasure and honor of extending congratulations to the Bosnian and Herzegovinian citizens of Canada’s capital on the Independence Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Canada is home to more than 25,000 citizens of Bosnian and Herzegovinian origin. As Mayor, I wish to express my gratitude to the Bosnian and Herzegovinian community in Ottawa for its significant contribution to the economic, cultural, and social prosperity of our city, which has greatly enriched the cultural and social mosaic of our community. I congratulate the Bosnian community on its valuable efforts to preserve and celebrate Bosnian cultural heritage, which enriches the multicultural fabric of our city. I extend my best wishes to the Bosnian and Herzegovinian community on the occasion of the Independence Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” the Mayor said.
Ambassador Aleksandar Bogdanić’s diplomacy from Ottawa, shaped in Belgrade to deceive Canada and to dismantle Bosnia and Herzegovina, has failed. Bogdanić is not a diplomatic representative of a party, an individual, or an unrecognized entity, but a representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which Canada has recognized as a sovereign and independent state. Canada is well aware of what is taking place within the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and if the determined pressure of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian community on the Government of Canada continues, it could even result in the ambassador being declared persona non grata.
The story from the capital of Canada, a member of the Peace Implementation Council, about the diplomacy of denying one’s own state is only part of a well-known scenario of stripping Bosnia and Herzegovina of its sovereignty. This is being carried out in several embassies of Bosnia and Herzegovina around the world, where Dodik’s “ethno-party” diplomats are serving.
Anti-Bosnian ambassadors must understand that the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a project of a single ideology. It is not a territorial fantasy. It is not a private company. It is an internationally recognized state. And its citizens, including the diaspora in Canada, will not accept being second-class citizens in their own embassies, it was stated in the press release by the Institute for Genocide Research in Canada.
