Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Zeljka Cvijanovic stayed in Washington. On the page of the State Presidency, there is no such news, which is not a usual practice. It was also not in the protocol announcement. That will not happen either. The meeting was held behind closed doors, and the host was, as four months ago in Dayton, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.
About the details of the visit spoke Ivica Puljic, correspondent of Federal Television from Washington.
Puljic points out that Christopher Landau is very highly ranked in the State Department and that there was certainly talk about removing Milorad Dodik from political life, given that the side represented by Cvijanovic demands that no new court processes be conducted against him in the future. He also adds that the United States (U.S.) demands that on November 23rd, early presidential elections be held in the smaller BiH entity.
“This is the second Cvijanovic – Landau meeting. The first was in Dayton on May 23rd this year. Considering that Cvijanovic received a visa for six months, the logical conclusion is that this is the approximate time frame within which the Americans might seek some results from her,” Puljic states.
He reminded that both Dodik and Cvijanovic are under U.S. sanctions, and that Cvijanovic is lobbying for them to be lifted. He also points out that the U.S. supported Milorad Dodik in 1998, just as they now give support to Zeljka Cvijanovic.
Puljic also explained what the A1 visa means, which Cvijanovic received and which is valid for six months.
“It is a visa intended for foreign officials of the highest rank: presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, ambassadors, or consular officials who travel to the U.S. for official purposes. The visa is also approved for members of the immediate family of the main A1 visa holder, and all of them are under U.S. sanctions, so all of this is interesting,” Puljic pointed out.
He said that it is interesting that the phones of the delegation led by Zeljka Cvijanovic did not work while she was in Washington, and that with her was Dodik’s former foreign policy adviser, Ana Trisic-Babic, who is also her adviser and, as he states, a possible next head of diplomacy of BiH.
“Zeljka Cvijanovic had protection of the U.S. Secret Service, so the U.S. absolutely knew where she was moving and with whom she was meeting. It should also be said that the Embassy of Serbia provided logistical support and that she had no contact with the BiH embassy in Washington,” added Puljic.
He also emphasized that Russia is very active in the United Nations (UN) and that in its report on the situation in Europe, it stated that BiH, that is, as it says in that report, Bosniaks and Croats support Nazism.
