DODIK: EXCELLENT SRPSKA - HUNGARY COOPERATION, REGULAR MEETING WITH ORBÁN TOMORROW

BUDAPEST, JUNE 4 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik states that he will meet tomorrow with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whom he described as a man of peace, stressing that Republika Srpska and Hungary have excellent cooperation.

"This is a regular meeting. We have several each year. At the beginning of the current year, we agreed to sit down and analyze everything we've done so far. We have approached our cooperation with Hungary very seriously," Dodik told the press from Republika Srpska in Budapest.

The president of Srpska highlighted his deep respect for Orbán, whom he described as one of the leading figures of a new worldview.

"It is based on the idea of national and state sovereignty. He is not a neoliberal leader who claims that nations and states do not exist. For many years, Orbán has been warning that Brussels will not get far with such practices. Now we hear him saying that the war-mongering impulses from Brussels will ultimately destroy Europe itself," said Dodik.

He recalled that U.S. President Donald Trump also stated several times that America would no longer build other nations and interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

"That proves Orbán was right all along. Some in Brussels want to use financial leverage to control certain countries, some of which accept it, but Orbán correctly assessed that Europe cannot survive in the long term under such a system," Dodik said.

He points out that Trump does not cooperate with European institutions in Brussels but instead engages directly with individual countries.

"It should be understood that Trump and the USA now want to talk to states directly, and their tariff policy will lead to situations where countries wishing to cooperate with America will have to sign bilateral agreements on benefits, as Hungary will do, in order to be exempted from what Trump is imposing on Europe," said Dodik.

He has noted that he will discuss this with Orbán tomorrow.

"If America signs preferential trade agreements with Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, then the very foundations of the EU - the common market - will no longer hold," Dodik concluded.