The US analytic Daniel Serwer assessed that “the independent Republika Srpska” will not be recognized by anyone and that every attempt of its secession would lead to conflicts such as those which marked the 1990s.
Commenting on the attitude of the President of the smaller BiH entity Milorad Dodik that RS has the right to be independent, Serwer said that RS must never arbitrarily reach for referendum on secession nor it will ever become an independent state because, according to Serwer, it can never obtain support from the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
At the meeting of the ruling coalition held in Banja Luka on Saturday, Dodik said that RS is – a state.
Serwer, analytic for the Balkans and professor at the John Hopkins University, who is a sharp critic of authorities in the RS and of the president of that entity, reacted immediately on that statement of Dodik’s by saying: “of course I will not decide if RS will become independent”.
That, Serwer added, has already been decided once and that decision will not be withdrawn.
“Dodik uses the idea of the independent RS to make his political career. Even if he proclaims that, no one will recognize that independency, especially not Serbia because then it would be in a very unfavorable position. By supporting the independency of RS, Serbia would damage its ties with Brussels and Washington,” said Serwer.
Speaking of the EU path of BiH, Serwer said that the burning issue is that BiH does not have a central government in Sarajevo which would implement all requests and conditions from Brussels.
President of the People’s Democratic Movement (NDP) Dragan Čavić said that two stereotypes about RS exist in Serbia.
“One is – if there was not for Dodik, there would be no RS, and the second one is that social and economic situation is better in the RS than in Serbia. They are both wrong and both of them can be revoked,” Čavić said.
(Source: klix.ba)
