DODIK: ANNOUNCED ARREST WARRANT PROVES MISERABILITY AND INCOMPETENCE OF SARAJEVO

BANJA LUKA, MARCH 28 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President, Milorad Dodik, says that political persecution is being conducted against him and that the announced arrest warrant proves miserability and incompetence of Sarajevo.

"These are persecutions that are not based on the law passed by the parliament, but on the basis of a decision made by a foreigner, who has recently even threatened saying I will return to Republika Srpska. Yes, I will return, but he will leave," said Dodik.

The president of Srpska stated that Sarajevo, above all, would like to see him tied up and taken to their casemates.

"They saw it when bringing in prominent Serbs, even punishing them with impalement at one time," Dodik added.

According to him, the Serbs, unlike those from the past, have their own state called Republika Srpska.

"We live in BiH because an international force insisted on maintaining it, but they also know that this force is not what it used to be," says the president of Srpska.

He added that everything would still end one day with political processes, referendums.

Dodik has emphasized that what he is trying to do now is to legalize that the Serbs, as a constituent people, have the right to a referendum according to the UN Charter.

"We will win that referendum. And I will constantly talk about it because if it is not talked about, it will never happen. This is a hard and persistent fight and we are closer to it than five months ago," said Dodik.

He pointed out that his country is Srpska and Serbia and that Republika Srpska and Serbia are actually one space for the Serb people.

"The fact that they want to separate us with administrative bans is just their delusions. Earlier, they tried to expel Serbs from Sarajevo through false policies and supposedly judicial processes. Many had to leave because there were no international borders then, but they still left because they did not want to suffer torture; today, they are trying to do that with us," said Dodik.

However, as he said, they are now forgetting that Republika Srpska is a state that has its own borders and internal ones that will one day, as he assessed, become international.

"We want the border between Srpska and Serbia to disappear and that will happen one day no matter what they do there," said the president.

He added that for him, Sarajevo is a foreign and Serbia is his country.

"It is a part of my life, while Sarajevo is a city that has never been a part of my life and never will be," Dodik told RTRS.

If he were to say otherwise, says Dodik, then he would be humiliating the 150,000 Serbs who left Sarajevo and left behind hundreds of billions worth infrastructure they built.

"The good thing is that the Americans, when developing the Dayton Peace Agreement, calculated that it would fail one day, which is why they created inter-entity boundary line between the entities," concluded the president of Srpska.