UK AND GERMANY ACTIVELY ORGANISING OPPOSITION IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, JUST LIKE THE ALBANIAN ONE IN KOSOVO

BELGRADE, JUNE 2 /SRNA/ - The United Kingdom and Germany are very actively involved in organising the Albanian opposition against Albin Kurti in Priština, as just as they are doing with the opposition in Republika Srpska, said the BiH Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandar Vranješ.

"They are doing this on both organisational and financial levels, all with the goal of filling the vacuum created by the shift in U.S. policy and their retreat from internal affairs in other countries. That American shift is rational. For too long we've witnessed U.S. involvement in every issue in BiH.

They were deeply involved in decision-making over the last three decades. So the current approach, where America wants to step back and give room for domestic agreements among democratically elected elites, makes complete sense," Vranješ emphasized.

He has pointed out that the UK and Germany are now trying to fill that vacuum and are actively working to organise the opposition in Republika Srpska, as just as they are doing in Priština.

According to Vranješ, the UK and Germany believe that the current political vacuum gives them an opportunity to bring in new political elites who are more aligned with their interests and far removed from the national and sovereignist ideas currently prevalent in Republika Srpska.

He has explained that the chaos being generated by Germany and the UK involves direct interference in BiH's internal affairs. They are currently attempting to, a year before the elections, force changes at the level of the state community to remove the SNSD and United Srpska from power and replace them with parties loyal to their interests, despite some of these parties having only 1.5% public support.

These parties, he stressed, use long-familiar slogans, but it is evident that they are moving away from the sovereignist stance of the current government - the only real defensc against pressures and attacks on Republika Srpska.

“However, Britain and Germany do not have the authority the U.S. once had to impose their will and change governments. In the long term, this effort is doomed to fail, but it reveals their current activities, which we define as chaos.

"These activities they are engaging in directly interfere with the internal affairs of BiH. They are now trying, a year before the elections, to make certain changes at the level of the state community, to remove the ruling parties from power and bring in an opposition loyal to them. This only proves how they are creating chaos, which all comes down to serving their own interests," Vranješ told TV Prva.

When asked to comment on Christian Schmidt's statement that he intends to be the last "High Representative in BiH," Vranješ responded that Schmidt is misinformed, as the last High Representative was Valentin Inzko.

"Schmidt is not the High Representative, nor will there be another one after him, based on the current stance of the UN Security Council, including the US, Russia, and China. He is merely a German diplomat with a German diplomatic passport serving the interests I mentioned. He is a man bringing chaos into the political system of BiH with his erratic actions. He doesn’t exist for us, and we don't listen to what he says," Vranješ declared.

He has noted that BiH is now a less functional state community than it was three or four years ago, before Schmidt's arrival.

When asked what France's interest is in the context of the non-paper written by France and Germany, Vranješ said that France got involved as if it were an important state, but that its proactive role was not evident, nor was it the one that initiated the whole thing. Therefore, the non-paper should be seen as an attempt to create a new group of countries that will rally around it.

Speaking about the non-paper on BiH, Vranješ says it is a platform attempting to gather a new group of countries to back it, but that nothing seems to be happening with it, nor does France appear to be playing an active role, despite being formally mentioned alongside Germany.

"The assessment is that this non-paper, like many before it regarding BiH, will simply fade away," Vranješ said.

In his view, the only rational stance is the one expressed by top US officials: that BiH's future must depend solely on internal stakeholders, democratically elected at the elections.

"Only an internal agreement among the three constituent peoples - politically, only among those representatives who truly have the people's trust, not those with 1.5% support - can lead to a solution. Stakeholders with real support from the three constituent peoples must sit down and negotiate," Vranješ emphasized.

However, he pointed out, the problem is that the Bosniaks, as the most numerous and thus most responsible people for the country's fate, are avoiding any dialogue.

"The ball is in their court, so they must decide. If they don't, they'll be responsible for BiH's collapse," said Vranješ.

He has added that it is extremely important for Republika Srpska that Belgrade closely monitors developments in BiH. This matters from a psychological perspective, affirming that the motherland cares about Serbs outside of Serbia - especially in Republika Srpska, which has been under constant pressure for 30 years.