Being neutral used to be acceptable, especially during the Cold War. However, being neutral in the current geopolitical circumstances of the Russian aggression against Ukraine is a minority commitment of certain states, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) could be placed, if that decision was on Milorad Dodik.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the member of the Presidency of BiH, Milorad Dodik, has pointed out and advocated the thesis that our state should have a neutral position. However, the world was divided very precisely. Confirmation came on Wednesday at a session of the United Nations (UN)General Assembly when 141 countries voted to condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
BiH is among the countries that voted for, because the ambassador of our country acted according to the UN Charter and according to previously established state principles and commitments. BiH was even among the countries that initiated the adoption of such a resolution.
Serbia also voted for condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which clearly sided with those who condemned the Russian attack and said that they were not and could not be neutral.
While Serbia sided with the majority world, BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik tried to pull our country in the opposite direction. He even wrote, through the Russian mission, to the UN General Assembly that BiH is neutral, even though BiH Ambassador Sven Alkalaj voted to condemn the Russian aggression.
Dodik wanted to position BiH among the neutral states, in the company of Burundi, Bolivia, Pakistan, Mongolia, Iraq, Vietnam, and some other countries, a total of 35. It should be noted that the only country that belongs to Europe, ie the European political spectrum, which was neutral about the Russian aggression on Ukraine, was Armenia.
In that way, the leader of the SNSD shows his commitment to Russian politics, which puts the political future and the entity whose policy he creates and the citizens at stake.
If Dodik somehow managed to put an item on the agenda about BiH’s commitment to the war in Ukraine, it is clear that there would be no consensus. But BiH would have a vague positionthat would automatically classify it as a neutral state, that is, it would form the basis for a neutral position. The question arises as to what this would mean for internal relations in BiH, what it would mean for the external positioning of a country aspiring to membership in the European Union (EU).
BiH, together with Serbia, but also other countries of the Western Balkans, has clearly shown where it belongs and what it aspires to.
E.Dz.
Source: Klix.ba
