POLITICAL SARAJEVO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND MESSAGES ABOUT DOMESTIC DIALOGUE, DEAL OR RESPONSIBILITY

SARAJEVO, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the Presidency of BiH Željka Cvijanović said that representatives of Republika Srpska understood messages about dialogue, deal, internal solutions and responsibility, and that political Sarajevo still aims for a colonial administration, which was the cause of disunity at the last session of the Peace Implementation Council /PIC/.

Cvijanović said that no decision was made at the session of the PIC on the candidate for the new high representative, because there was a conflict between two concepts, not two candidates.

"We do not have agreement, because we have a collision of two concepts shown here. It is not just a matter of figures who need to do some work, it is not a personal story," Cvijanović said.

She pointed out that the new US administration was heard several times, but also right before the PIC session, that they were looking for domestic dialogue and solutions, as well as responsibility of the local people who were elected through a democratic procedure.

She recalled that at the UN Security Council session, the US representative called for more dialogue between the representatives of the constituent peoples in BiH and for the restoration of domestic sovereignty.

"For local institutions to make decisions, and not for unelected foreigners to do it," said Cvijanović and added that the representatives of Republika Srpska recognized that message.

She pointed out that the message from the UN Security Council session clearly shows that someone has seen the real situation, after more than 30 years.

"The US does not want nations to be built in such a way. The US President Donald Trump clearly said that, and I interpret it in that way. What we heard and what came out of the PIC session clearly shows that this is what is at stake," said Cvijanović.

On the other side are, she says, Europeans who, probalby aware of their inability to solve some issues on their own or to impose themselves as someone who is a credible partner to the BiH institutions, hidden plan to continue functioning within BiH.

Cvijanović believes that the story of EU expansion will revolve around two neighboring countries, not all of them.

She pointed out that the Dayton Agreement did not provide for the OHR in the way it operated in BiH, and that therefore returns to the question of what is a high representative and what does he do in BiH?

"I am sure that the high representative will be chosen by the end of June and I have my own predictions of what it will look like. Surely there cannot be Bonn powers in the way they were used. Probably in some rotten compromise we can count on someone saying - well, there will be Bonn powers, but you will not use them," Cvijanović said.

She stressed that the peoples of BiH must get used to the fact that they live without high representatives.

"Schmidt signed off, he said, he resigned. Another thing, Schmidt has not intervened for months because someone told him that he cannot use the Bonn authorizations. So, we have been living without any Bonn authorizations for months," Cvijanović told Avaz.

Regarding the assertions of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Council of Ministers Elmedin Konaković that there must be Bonn authorizations because there is no agreement among domestic politicians, Cvijanović said that there will be no such authorizations.

"Konaković is someone who extends Bonn powers, of course when they are directed against the Serbs, against Republika Srpska. He also has obsessive dimensions in relation to the SNSD and Milorad Dodik," Cvijanović said.

She said that this is the time for a different, better life in BiH.

The new high representative, she pointed out, will certainly be a person who will have a serious lack of legitimacy if his appointment is not verified through a UN Security Council resolution.

"Annex 10 of the Dayton Agreement clearly states that it is appointed by the signatory parties to this agreement. What the parties used to do, and Republika Srpska was one of the parties, was taken over by the PIC," said Cvijanović and added that it is mandatory that the verification of the appointment pass through the UN Security Council.