CVIJANOVIĆ TO BEĆIROVIĆ: EMPTY WORDS ARE MEANINGLESS – YESTERDAY MADE EVERYTHING CLEAR

EAST SARAJEVO, AUGUST 26 /SRNA/ – The Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željka Cvijanović, stated today that the remarks made by the Bosniak member of the Presidency regarding her initiative to nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize amounted to backpedalling, and that it would have been far better had he refrained from addressing the topic at all, as he only further entangled himself.

These repeated narratives about Russian influence or American sanctions are nothing but pathetic. The fact is, he blocked the proposal from being included on the agenda of the Presidency session. He could have supplemented it with anything he wished. But the essence is that he could not bring himself to take a position on the proposal, and it is therefore entirely unnecessary and highly amateurish for him to attempt to disguise that fact today," Cvijanović told Srna.

She emphasized that Bećirović is part of a broader Bosniak political platform rooted in intolerance and in the denial of the fact that Serbs also live in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"Hatred is the hallmark of Bosniak politics. The hallmarks of Serb politics are the Constitution, the Dayton Agreement, and above all, peace and stability," Cvijanović underscored.

Regarding the sanctions imposed by the Obama and Biden administrations on officials and elected representatives of Republika Srpska, Cvijanović expressed her greatest satisfaction in the fact that those policies were rejected by the American electorate in the previous elections, when overwhelming support was given to President Trump.

"If those policies were not good for Americans, it is clear they were no better for Serbs and other justice-loving peoples. For those who rely on the tools of the deep state - such as the fabricated ‘Bonn Powers’—to maintain the illusion of statehood, this is not a favourable time. We in Republika Srpska believe in genuine democracy, where elected representatives are held accountable at the ballot box," she stated.

Cvijanović added that Sarajevo places its faith in the force of coercion - whether in the hands of Christian Schmidt or in the use of lawfare for political purposes.

"We will never be the same. And it is deeply shameful that the other two members of the Presidency prevented us from taking a position yesterday on a crucial matter - one in which, as a country that has experienced war, we could have welcomed President Trump’s efforts to secure global peace. Empty words are meaningless - yesterday made everything perfectly clear," Cvijanović concluded.