BANJA LUKA -- Bosnia's Serb republic (RS) entity President Milorad Dodik has stated that the U.S. cables published by Wikileaks revealed nothing new in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
BANJA LUKA -- Bosnia's Serb republic (RS) entity President Milorad Dodik has stated that the U.S. cables published by Wikileaks revealed nothing new in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Source: Tanjug
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Dodik stressed that ambassadors follow their own policies in Bosnia and that all those who dare to confront them are qualified as infamous.
"If you do not accept to fulfill their requests which, as one can see from the cables are often very anti-Dayton, they tend to qualify you as a threat to peace and stability," Dodik told Tanjug late on Wednesday, as a response to the published Wikileaks cables which qualified him as a threat to stability in Bosnia and the region.
Dodik pointed out that the cables sent by Ambassador Charles English to the U.S. State Department point to another phenomenon regarding the so-called Western Balkan countries, which is that the "ambassadors in the region pursue their own policies and use their personal impressions instead of facts in writing their reports."
"The content of the cables published by Wikileaks reveals the anti-Dayton tendencies of the US ambassador, who obviously served the people in Bosnia who wanted and still want to see RS stripped of power, under the excuse of creating a functional state," Dodik said.
The RS president pointed out that the comment, "We are not convinced the Europeans are ready to manage post-OHR Bosnia", that English wrote in a cable very openly shows certain states' tendencies to manage Bosnia.
"It was Ambassador English who last year misled U.S. Secretary of State James Steinberg to believing that Bosnia would get a new constitution provided he appeared in Butmir, near Sarajevo," Dodik stated.
"It is good that Wikileaks provides us with confirmation for most of the things that we knew without ever reading their cables. If we decide to write about them, their behavior, stands and habits, I am afraid that such a cable would be more popular and that they would turn out to be much worse than us," Dodik said.
"By that time, the Republic of Srpska will remain committed to the honoring of the Dayton Treaty, which guarantees its autonomy, and endeavor to preserve peace and stability both in Bosnia and the region," the RS president stated.
Congratulations Mr. Dodik! FIFA will grant your dream of the RS uniting with Serbia. The muslims and croats in your fabricated country cannot live without football. They will beg you to split off so they can have the chance to compete in the world cup.
(JohnBoy in Chicago, 7 April 2011 23:10)
Too many hands in Bosnia that don't belong there. The Serbs Croatians and Bosnians don't get along but I'm sure that without outside influence they can manage on their own. It was outside influence that created the war and is now trying to control and wrest Bosnia away from the Balkans altogether. Where's the cable that say's "It's working, we're still managing to keep tensions high between all of them!"?
(Mike_Toronto, 7 April 2011 14:27)
Too many hands in Bosnia that don't belong there. The Serbs Croatians and Bosnians don't get along but I'm sure that without outside influence they can manage on their own. It was outside influence that created the war and is now trying to control and wrest Bosnia away from the Balkans altogether. Where's the cable that say's "It's working, we're still managing to keep tensions high between all of them!"?
(Mike_Toronto, 7 April 2011 14:27)
Congratulations Mr. Dodik! FIFA will grant your dream of the RS uniting with Serbia. The muslims and croats in your fabricated country cannot live without football. They will beg you to split off so they can have the chance to compete in the world cup.
(JohnBoy in Chicago, 7 April 2011 23:10)
Too many hands in Bosnia that don't belong there. The Serbs Croatians and Bosnians don't get along but I'm sure that without outside influence they can manage on their own. It was outside influence that created the war and is now trying to control and wrest Bosnia away from the Balkans altogether. Where's the cable that say's "It's working, we're still managing to keep tensions high between all of them!"?
(Mike_Toronto, 7 April 2011 14:27)
Congratulations Mr. Dodik! FIFA will grant your dream of the RS uniting with Serbia. The muslims and croats in your fabricated country cannot live without football. They will beg you to split off so they can have the chance to compete in the world cup.
(JohnBoy in Chicago, 7 April 2011 23:10)