DODIK: POLITICAL ORDER IN BiH REWARDS ONLY THOSE WHO ALIGN WITH SARAJEVO

BANJA LUKA, DECEMBER 12 /SRNA/ — SNSD President Milorad Dodik has stated he does not believe that BiH can be built on the political will of representatives of political groups and the constituent peoples.

According to him, it has been imposed in BiH that "you are considered good only if you accept what is thought in Sarajevo and if you are ready to act against yourself and those you represent".

"You are acceptable only if you are willing to sit in Sarajevo's hallways and lounges, nod your head, and say how phenomenal and intellectually superior they are. They are none of that," Dodik said.

He added that history does not allow BiH to function, because otherwise BiH would long ago have been constituted as a distinct state and would not have a single problem.

"BiH has never been a state in its history until the Dayton Agreement tried to create some complex entity that failed. It is simply a dumping ground where no seed can sprout to produce healthy social and political development. I have no illusions about that," Dodik told reporters in Banja Luka.

He emphasized that the only correct approach is to grant peoples the right to decide what they want.

"We are supposedly guilty because we refuse to endure the torture of the Muslims from Sarajevo. With our actions we have never said we want to rule Sarajevo, Zenica, or Tuzla. They say `our Banja Luka`. I do not consider Sarajevo, Zenica, or Tuzla mine. I see them as distant foreign places where plans are constantly plotted against the Serb people," Dodik pointed out.

He stated that his hopes rest on Republika Srpska becoming as strong and as self-reliant as possible.

"That Srpska becomes what we see in the vision of the US President Donald Trump and that is sovereign in its decision-making, territory, and future," Dodik concluded.