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President of the Republika Srpska (an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina) Milorad Dodik will meet in Moscow on May 23 with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said this in an interview with RTRS TV channel.
Dodik said he would discuss “important geopolitical issues” with Putin, as well as economic projects. According to him, he will not discuss arms supplies with the Russian president, but Dodik is interested in “how the world of the future is seen” for Putin and whether the Republika Srpska will be able to “adapt” to it.
Republika Srpska is part of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second part of the state is the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Muslim Bosnians and Croats live.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country is headed by a collective presidium, which includes three presidents: from the Republika Srpska, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Brcko district.
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In October 2022, after winning the elections for the presidency of the Republika Srpska, Dodik promised to cooperate with Russia.
In January of this year, Dodik presented Putin with the Order of the Republika Srpska. He explained the award by the fact that the Russian president supports the Dayton Agreement, thanks to which Bosnia and Herzegovina was created. “And how will the major European countries explain that at the height of the sanctions against Russia, some of them even have an increased level of trade with the Russians? And at the same time, we are the bad guys, and they are on the side of good,” Dodik said.
Dodik has been under US sanctions since 2017. The US Treasury considers it a serious threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina by obstructing the implementation of the Dayton Accords that ended the civil war, and also “continues to destabilize, abuse its powers, and is associated with widespread corruption that undermines the state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Herzegovina”.
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Interview of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov to the Bosnian-Serbian TV and radio company Radio and Television of the Republika Srpska, Moscow, June 4, 2022 –
Question (translated from Serbian): Russian-Ukrainian conflict, sanctions and Russian response — all these are the topics that we are talking about today with the head of Russian diplomacy Sergey Lavrov.
Thank you for taking the time to give an interview for the public television and radio company of our Republic in a difficult historical period, in a busy work schedule.
Foreign Minister Lavrov: I think that it is precisely at such times that it is necessary to speak in more detail, to talk about what is really happening, given the lies that are literally pouring out of the mass media in the West.
Question (translated from Serbian): This sad occasion provided an opportunity for our viewers, incl. and from Europe they could hear a different point of view – the Russian side. Let’s start with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. From the 24th of February it became the main world news. Little is known about what preceded it. Why did Russia decide on a special military operation in Ukraine at this very moment?
Sergey Lavrov: At the beginning of the question, you said that it is important for Europe and the West to know another point of view. Serbia (where my visit will soon take place) is doing everything to ensure freedom of speech, the fulfillment of its obligations within the framework of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to provide access to information to all OSCE citizens without exception.
The West does not fulfill these obligations. What I am about to tell you will hardly be accepted by the mass media in Western European countries, in NATO and EU member countries that have introduced and continue to impose prohibitive sanctions on the broadcasting of Russian media. TV channels, news agencies are blacklisted.
You said before February 24 this year. few people understood what was going on. This problem is from the same series that we just talked about. The West for all these long years “hushed up” the acuteness of the situation, which was only aggravated.
It all started a long time ago. At least in 2014, when, contrary to the guarantees of France, Germany and Poland, who supported the agreement reached between the President of Ukraine V.F. Yanukovych and the opposition, the next morning after the signing of the document, neo-Nazis, ultra-radicals seized power in Kiev. Germany, France and the entire European Union showed helplessness, and then began to justify their inability to force the opposition to comply with the agreements guaranteed by the European Union, saying that this is “part of the democratic process.
” How “democratic” the process was, it became known instantly. Literally the day after the seizure of power, these people, including representatives of ultranationalist parties listed as extremist in the relevant lists of Western countries, declared that they would abolish all rights of the Russian language and expel Russians from Crimea. They sent militants to the Crimea to storm the Supreme Soviet. That’s when it all started.
The West kept quiet about it. The general reader, viewer, listener is not aware of how the prerequisites for the current situation were ripening. Everything continued when, on May 2, 2014, the neo-Nazis who seized power in Ukraine burned 50 people alive in Odessa. On June 2, 2014 (yesterday was another anniversary), the Ukrainian armed forces, combat aircraft bombed the center of Lugansk and other settlements in the east only because they refused to accept the results of an unconstitutional coup d’état, to live within the framework of absolutely Russophobic, extremist neo-Nazi rules that reproduce all the traditions of the Third Reich and honoring as heroes those who collaborated with the Nazis.
This is well known, at least in Ukraine, Russia and neighboring countries. The fact is that for many years the West preferred not to notice this. Similarly, in 2015, when the Minsk agreements were signed with the participation of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine, there was a chance to preserve the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state. If they were fulfilled, there would be no need to defend the Donbass.
In the Minsk agreements, it was written about the need to resolve the issue of granting Donbass a special status, which included simple things: firstly, the right to speak one’s own, Russian language; secondly, to have their own, local police to ensure law and order; thirdly, to be heard in the appointment of prosecutors and judges and to have special economic relations with the Russian Federation.
Remember how the situation around Kosovo developed. In 2013, even before the conclusion of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine, the same European Union proclaimed its next success the achievement of an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the creation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities of Kosovo.
This assumed the right to use their native language, autonomy in the field of local government and special economic, social, cultural ties with Serbia. Practically the same thing. In both cases, the EU mediated, and there, and there it proved its complete failure, inability to negotiate, the absence of any desire to convince in the case of Serbia – Pristina, in the case of Donbass – Kiev to fulfill its obligations.
In the case of the Minsk agreements, it is even more “interesting” because they were approved by the UN Security Council. All the same, the EU spit on them, as well as the United States. They did everything to “indulge” the Kyiv regime in its Russophobic activities. For all the years that the implementation of the Minsk agreements was sabotaged, instead of granting the right to use the Russian language at least to the Donbass (as it was recorded), the Kiev regime banned Russian-language education, media, culture, literature and at the same time encouraged neo-Nazi theory and Nazi practice, including the creation of appropriate battalions and the cultivation of the symbols that glorified Nazi Germany.
Europe looked at it completely indifferently.
This made many of our historians, scientists, political scientists recall how Europe initially treated Hitler, how many European countries delegated their military personnel to the army of the Third Reich, including to attack the Soviet Union.
All this has been ripening for a long time. In parallel with the demands to fulfill the Minsk agreements, we have been reminding the West for many years that its course towards NATO expansion will end badly. Firstly, it turns out that we were lied to when the Soviet Union was promised that NATO would not expand. The alliance has expanded five times since then. A sixth expansion is now planned. Secondly, we warned a long time ago when they began to draw Ukraine into NATO that this would be seen as a direct threat to the Russian Federation. They rejected the draft Treaty on Security Guarantees in Europe, which we proposed in 2009d. In 2021, they ignored another project that we proposed to both the US and (separate treaty) NATO.
We were told directly and rather rudely: the expansion of the Alliance and the possible participation of Ukraine in this process is not our business, we should not get involved in these issues.
At the same time (there was no doubt) Ukraine was being pumped up with weapons, hundreds of CIA and British intelligence officers worked there. I think they have already been there for ten years, occupying huge premises in the buildings of official Ukrainian services and agencies. Everything, by and large, is controlled. The Western countries refused all our reasonable proposals and compromises and by this justified our worst fears that in practice they created a springboard from Ukraine in order to threaten and restrain the Russian Federation. That is why we are left with no choice but to recognize these republics. The LPR and DPR were supposed to receive a special status from Ukraine and remain part of Ukraine. In relation to them, the Ukrainian armed forces, the “national battalions” continued their aggressive line, daily shelling.
During the years of sabotage of the Minsk agreements, 14 thousand civilians were killed as a result of direct shelling of cities, civilian infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, kindergartens.
It is a pity that in Europe there is an impression that until February 24 this year. no one understood what was happening. This only says one thing – Western politicians did not want to touch on these topics in the media space so that their population, voters would understand what was happening in reality.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently described the United States and the “collective West” headed by it as an “empire of lies”. It was formed a long time ago: filtering the media space, a direct violation of OSCE commitments to ensure free, unhindered access to any information, to sources that are located both in your country and abroad. All this has long been buried by the West.
Question (translated from Serbian): The situation in Donbass is well known to our viewers, since we have a special correspondent who constantly, literally daily, informs viewers from the scene.
In particular, during the period of fierce fighting for Mariupol and at the Azovstal metallurgical plant. Russia is blamed for the NWO, but at the same time, the West constantly sends weapons to Ukraine. So who is involved in the conflict: Russia and Ukraine or Russia and someone else?
Sergey Lavrov: Ukraine is a bargaining chip, a tool manipulated primarily by the United States and Great Britain. Such an Anglo-Saxon collective, which is now headed by the West. NATO and the European Union, which have lost their independence for quite a long time, are completely obedient to him. They control the Ukrainians as a tool to contain our country (as they now say, its “exhaustion”) and defeat Russia “on the battlefield”. These words are spoken by the head of European diplomacy J. Borrell, and B. Johnson, and some politicians in the United States: Russia, Putin must be defeated on the battlefield.
This is to answer the question of whether there are any prospects for negotiations.
The West does not allow Ukraine to negotiate. Ukraine seemed to put forward a proposal two months ago on how to resolve this issue. We have taken these proposals as a basis. So a day later, the West forbade Ukrainians to continue this process. They toughened their position, a provocation took place in the settlement of Bucha, which was obviously staged. Three days after the Russian servicemen left the area: people lived there, the mayor drove around the streets. And only three days later the bodies were found there. Until now, the names of those who died in Bucha, shown by Western television channels and social networks, no one has presented or voiced information to anyone about what kind of injuries these people had that led to their death. This once again shows that the West does not want to present any facts to anyone. It is important for him to throw in a provocation, to make a loud noise out of it. Then, when people start trying to figure out the facts, they “put it aside” and come up with another new fake news.
You see how Ukraine is being pumped with weapons and heavy weapons. Now the Americans are giving multiple launch rocket systems. Immediately, the British fussed, who, apparently, were waiting for a go-ahead from Washington: they say, we will now give the Ukrainians MLRS. This is a risky path. At the same time, they declare that “they are at war with the Russians, Ukrainians are dying – let them die, and we only give weapons,” which, in the end, will lead to the death of even more Ukrainians.
Mariupol, Azovstal – all tasks were solved with minimal losses. You know that President Vladimir Putin gave the order not to storm Azovstal. As a result of the siege, the notorious thugs from the Azov battalion who were there simply surrendered. They are now testifying. I think that they will tell a lot of interesting things about how this neo-Nazi theory and practice was embodied in the daily life of the Ukrainian state, including under President V. A. Zelensky.
Question (translated from Serbian): To weaken Russia, the West introduced the sixth round of sanctions.
Excluding only Hungary, which does not want to give up Russian energy resources. Everyone in Europe felt the economic consequences. To what extent has Russia felt these sanctions?
Sergey Lavrov: Quite a long time ago we lost faith in the negotiability and reliability of our Western colleagues. This happened after 2014, when “Crimean” sanctions were introduced in retaliation for the free expression of will of the inhabitants of Crimea. Let me remind you that there was no referendum in Kosovo, but there was in Crimea. It was attended by numerous foreign observers, albeit not from states, but from responsible public organizations. They were honest people who wanted to see everything with their own eyes. For this expression of will, the unwillingness of the Crimeans to submit to the neo-Nazi regime that came to power as a result of a coup d’etat, despite the guarantees of the West that this would not happen, sanctions were imposed.
Since then, they began to rely on their own strength, on contacts and connections with reliable partners.
As a result of the measures taken, we have become a major agricultural nation. Prior to this, for many years they imported a large amount of food.
In Europe, the standard of living is deteriorating, inflation is rising, growth rates are slowing down. There was even the concept of “new poor”. People are suffering from upcoming problems, including rising prices. Many are in danger of poverty. Nevertheless, despite this, tens of billions of dollars and euros go into service with Ukraine. Germany announced that it was important for them not to support the Germans in difficult periods of rising prices, but to allocate 100 billion dollars for the militarization of their country. To many in Europe, this is a reminder that Germany’s announcement of the need to turn it into Europe’s leading military power may not come across as harmless to some.
As for us, the “sixth package”, restrictions on the supply of hydrocarbons by sea. Oil, by and large, is not subject to politics, there is a demand for it.
Oil markets do not follow political “orders”, “whims”. We have alternative sales markets, where we are already increasing sales. Considering the price level that has been established as a result of the policy of the West, we have no budget losses. On the contrary, this year we will significantly increase the profit received from the export of our energy resources.
We are learning from all this. Never again rely on these people. This does not mean that we will not talk to them at all. When they go crazy, let’s see what they tell us. In no case, now and forever, should we allow any critical spheres of the life of our state, the life of our people to depend on investments and technologies from Western countries.
Question (translated from Serbian): The West insists on its exclusiveness. In the situation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, he does not allow anyone to be neutral. The Republika Srpska, due to the complex configuration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is in a more difficult situation than Serbia.
She defends her positions so that BiH does not impose sanctions against Russia. Considering that some ambassadors in the UN Security Council or the Council of Europe are under the direct influence of Sarajevo and act from the position of their political parties, and not state institutional decisions. How does Russia perceive the position of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Sergey Lavrov: BiH’s position matters only if it is based on the Dayton principles, which say that all decisions must be made on the basis of the consent of two entities and three constituent peoples. The fact that the West is now trying to illegally encourage the actions of Sarajevo, to make foreign policy decisions without any regard for the position of the Republika Srpska, is a flagrant violation of Dayton.
I gave an example when the West lied: that NATO would not expand, that the Minsk agreements on Donbass would be implemented, that a Community of Serbian Municipalities of Kosovo would be created. Similarly, he lies that he is committed to the Dayton Accords.
In fact, the West is doing everything within the framework of the “electoral reform” to persuade, in particular the Croats, to agree that they are still represented in the general bodies by Bosnians or people who are completely politically in agreement with them. I do not want to say that the Bosnians are wrong in some way, but simply the Dayton principles require the consent of the three constituent peoples.
About the independence of Bosnia. Note that the Americans have a special envoy for electoral reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This says a lot about how “independent” the authorities in Sarajevo are.
Question (translated from Serbian): Not only the Americans have such an ambassador, but the British have a special envoy, and the Germans too. They believe that they can interfere in internal affairs. At the same time, they call any words of the Russian ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, on the NATO issue, Russian interference in the internal affairs of the country.
Sergey Lavrov: This is the Western manner, their delusions of grandeur and habit of constantly lying in order to justify their own lawlessness.
You mentioned special representatives. There is a High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, his function was indeed laid down in the Dayton Accords. It was clearly stated that he should be appointed for a short period. Back in 2006, the Steering Committee of the Council for the Implementation of the BiH Peace Agreement decided that it was time to close the shop and abolish the post of High Representative. But under various artificial, far-fetched pretexts, this process was delayed. When the term of the previous High Representative expired, we said that it was time to move on to a more respectful policy towards Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country has been independent for more than a dozen years, it is still run by some appointed representative, who has priority over all state bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In response to this, the West told us that we must continue this practice.
The only goal is to keep the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina in suspense and not let go. At the same time, the recalcitrant, in the person of the Republika Srpska, should also be conquered and subordinated to this dictate.
K. Schmidt from Germany was appointed in gross violation of the procedure that should have been applied. Firstly, this procedure provides for the nomination of such a candidate with the consent of all members of the Governing Council, and no one asked Russia. Secondly, there had to be the consent of all three constituent peoples. Third, there had to be a decision by the UN Security Council. The West refused all this. As a compromise, we and China proposed in the UN Security Council to approve, as it should be, the High Representative, but for a period of one year. During this year, prepare proposals on how to transfer the powers of government of your country to the Bosnian state itself. The West was categorically opposed, which means only one thing: it still wants to manipulate Bosnia in its own interests and make it another springboard for the expansion of NATO, for the expansion of the alliance in the Balkans.
Question (translated from Serbian): Due to the non-recognition of K. Schmidt as High Representative, the authorities of the Republika Srpska are under pressure and criticism from the West almost daily. Sarajevo is looking forward to the further steps of K. Schmidt, whom the Republika Srpska does not recognize as the High Representative, to impose his next decision and prohibit the nomination of M. Dodik in the upcoming October general elections in BiH. Does such an official, not approved by the UN Security Council, generally have the right to make and impose any decisions?
Sergey Lavrov: Of course not. I have already said that this is illegal activity. This person has no legitimacy whatsoever. I have no doubt that the West will try to create another lawlessness. What is being done against M. Dodik is outrageous. He is one of the few politicians who really stands up for Dayton’s principle. M. Dodik did nothing in the Republika Srpska and within the work of the Presidium, which is contrary to the Dayton agreements.
This is exactly what the Westerners and, unfortunately, the Bosniaks are doing. The West wants to use them to de-identify the Bosnian peoples and turn the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks into a kind of “civil society” (as they say). This requirement is to forget about one’s culture and traditions solely in the interests of the West achieving its geopolitical goals in the Balkans. This is a criminal policy.
Question (translated from Serbian): When M. Dodik says that in order to preserve BiH, it is necessary to return to the original Dayton, and that it is necessary to return the powers taken from Republika Srpska, the West interprets this as a threat of separatism. Following the United States, Great Britain also imposed sanctions against M. Dodik. In addition, London imposed sanctions on the President of the RS Z. Tsviyanovich. One of the reasons is allegedly Russia’s influence on the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs, their assertions that M. Dodik is “Putin’s man” and acts on his instructions.
How do you like it?
Sergey Lavrov: I have already said that M. Dodik does nothing that contradicts Dayton. On the contrary, he is almost the only one who defends Dayton in the face of an aggressive attack on this document from the West. M. Dodik is a friend of the Russian Federation, and we are his friends. Here, in fact, that’s all.
We have this proverb: “Whoever hurts, he talks about it.” The West cannot even imagine that any country or politician in the Balkans can be independent. He was used to using all sorts of Schmidts to “lead” everyone and blackmail everyone, to put forward an ultimatum to everyone. You don’t have to judge yourself. We have somewhat different manners, a different culture than the West.
Question (translated from Serbian): The public is increasingly talking about the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he linked the issue of Donbass with the Kosovo precedent, and that Serbia is under incredible pressure because of this.
Does Russia intend to withdraw its support for Serbia in this way, as some media outlets suggest, including even in Serbia itself?
Sergey Lavrov: There are many provocateurs everywhere. This, as I understand it, is about the statements of President Vladimir Putin regarding the verdict of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence. I heard President A. Vučić mention this.
I think there is a deep misunderstanding here. First, if you take history, the independence of Kosovo was proclaimed in 2008. Then there were no hostilities and there was a resolution 1244, which the leaders of Kosovo categorically refused to implement. Former President of Finland M. Ahtisaari, on behalf of the UN, was engaged in negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina in order to implement the same resolution. I repeat once again that there was no threat either to the population of Kosovo or to the neighboring regions of Serbia. Negotiations could continue, but instead M.
Ahtisaari suddenly said that they need to reach an agreement within a certain period of time. As soon as he said this, the Kosovars stopped participating in the negotiations. Independence was proclaimed. And in August 2008, the government of Serbia turned to the International Court of Justice with a request to give an opinion on the legitimacy of this process. We were asked to support this appeal. The opinion given by the International Court of Justice was initiated by Belgrade, the then government of Serbia. The West actively promoted it and welcomed it in every possible way. We didn’t express any emotion.
In 2014, under the influence of the events initiated by the bloody anti-state love spell in Ukraine and the attempt to seize the Crimea by the Nazis, the Crimeans held a referendum, and the West began to resent. Then President Vladimir Putin said that we are well aware of their double standards. We remember how they rejoiced when the International Court of Justice declared that a unilateral declaration of independence may not necessarily take place with the consent of the central authorities.
He said this solely to show the absolute hypocrisy, duplicity and double standards of the West.
As for Russia’s attitude to the negotiations on the future of Kosovo, which are ongoing and should be based on UN Security Council Resolution 1244, President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed both at meetings with President A. Vučić and in his public speeches that we are entirely We support Serbia’s position. We will support a solution that will be acceptable to the Serbian people.
Question (translated from Serbian): Serbia is under increasing pressure – the West insists on its exclusivity – continuously pressuring Belgrade to recognize the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo. You will be in Belgrade early next week. Will the issues of settlement in Kosovo and Russian gas supplies be discussed with Serbian President Aleksander Vučić?
Sergey Lavrov: We will discuss any topic that interests our Serbian friends. The topic of gas was discussed by President A.