KALINIĆ: PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE OF THREE PEOPLES AND THREE ENTITIES IS BiH's CHANCE

PALE, NOVEMBER 21 /SRNA/ – Former Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska Dragan Kalinić said that it is not the Serbs who have buried the Dayton Agreement, but rather those who created it and who continue to dismantle BiH’s Dayton constitutional structure, which is based on the equality of two entities and three constituent peoples.

"It is only logical that the Serbs, who ceded part of their sovereignty, established even before the war, to the newly created entity called BiH for the sake of peace, cannot allow that to be taken away at any cost," Kalinić told SRNA.

Kalinić stressed that this is the essence of Republika Srpska’s efforts to restore the fundamental principles of the Dayton Peace Agreement.

"I can freely say that the Westerners have become patricides of their own agreement. That is why we openly ask: do the successors of those high-ranking statesmen, the signatories and guarantors of the Dayton Agreement, still stand behind their signatures?" Kalinić asked.

Noting that Republika Srpska does not deny the right of the other two peoples to seek their own "modus vivendi" in these turbulent times, Kalinić said that the solution for peace and stability is the existing Dayton Agreement, that is, its letter, not its spirit.

"Whether we stay in BiH or not, we do not renounce what we had before Dayton and what was internationally verified in Dayton, and what Western globalists, also along with some of our own opportunism, took from us by force," Kalinić said.

He added that it would have been far better had everything agreed in Dayton and later confirmed in Paris by the signatures of some of the highest officials of the US, Western Europe, Russia, Serbia, Croatia and so-called BiH actually taken root.

"Had that happened, BiH today would be a peaceful and stable country of happy and satisfied people, but unfortunately, we are still far from that. The ink on the signatures had barely dried before the dismantling of Dayton began. Although its most important achievement was undoubtedly ending the tragic war and creating an opportunity for lasting peace, behind the scenes there already simmered dissatisfaction among many," Kalinić said.

He recalled that the Croats felt deceived, since they were promised gradual disintegration of BiH into numerous cantons in exchange for signing first the Washington, and then the Dayton Agreement and abandoning Herceg-Bosna.

"The Muslims – Bosniaks were promised that Bosnia would become a unitary, supposedly civic state with the domination of one majority people. The Serbs, who were deprived of much in territorial and political terms, agreed to sign in Paris only after pressure from Milošević, and for the sake of peace were recognized the right to special parallel ties with their homeland Serbia," Kalinić recalled.

He noted that all this resulted in a "frozen conflict" 30 years ago, while open interventionism by the globalist West, embodied in high representatives and foreign embassies, with the support of domestic vassals, has continued ever since.

"That has led to the erosion of the fundamental principles of the Dayton Agreement," Kalinić stressed.

In his words, had the Cutileiro Plan been accepted before the war, the four-year tragedy with thousands of dead and wounded on all sides might well have been avoided.

Kalinić expressed confidence that, just as in 1995, discussions and decisions about BiH will again be made at the geopolitical and international level.

"Our national issue has now been internationalized thanks to our leadership. Our country enjoys international understanding and support unimaginable at the time we were creating Republika Srpska," Kalinić said.

He assessed that this could mean establishing a three-entity confederation, along with eliminating the OHR’s protectorate-style colonial mission, which has proven to be a disruptive factor to any possible agreement among the three constituent peoples.

"That famous acronym OHR we could freely translate as `They Want Chaos,` /Oni Hoće Rasulo/" the former Speaker of the National Assembly of Srpska said.

Kalinić believes that through peaceful coexistence of three peoples and three entities, BiH would have a chance to remain whole.

"It is time to face this realistic idea, whose origins lie in the Cutileiro Plan. I am convinced it would contribute to lasting peace and stability in this country as a whole," Kalinić concluded, adding that time will soon show whether this idea has fertile ground to take root.