“Serbia poses threat to region”

Former member of Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Ejup Ganić thinks that Serbia is endangering stability of the region.

Izvor: FoNet

Sunday, 17.10.2010.

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Former member of Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Ejup Ganic thinks that Serbia is endangering stability of the region. He says that Bosnia-Herzegovina only has formal relations with Serbia instead of essential diplomatic ones. “Serbia poses threat to region” Ganic says that the Dayton Accords is endangering civil freedoms because it has not provided mechanisms which would make people feel safe. Civil security in Bosnia-Herzegovina is very threatened and it is one of the reasons why refugees have not returned, he said and added that there were no returnees at all in parts where police were not ethnically balanced. Situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina is conditioned by relations in the region because regional stability affects civil freedoms in Bosnia, the former member of Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency stressed. He explained that Bosnia-Herzegovina only had formal instead of essential diplomatic relations with Serbia and that Serbia represented a threat to regional stability. Ganic pointed out that his country was trying to solve the issue by joining NATO and the EU but he assessed that “it would take a while”. “We must be more active on the international scene and explain that our security is threatened by the surrounding countries,” he stressed. “We have to change mechanisms within in order to reintegrate the state because there is no return of refugees due to civil insecurity. Eastern Bosnia is empty, Posavina is empty because someone who persecuted you is often waiting for you there. We don’t have ethnically balanced police and that has given results,” the former member of Bosnian Presidency said. When asked why refugees did not return to Sarajevo, he said that the reason for that was an economic one. He also points out that he was against international high representative’s decision to sell state-owned apartments because price of a single apartment in Sarajevo at the time was equal to a price of an apartment in Belgrade and Banja Luka combined. “Economic logic has left us without many former citizens of Sarajevo,” he concluded. According to him, Radovan Karadzic persecuted about 10,000 ethnic Serbs from Sarajevo after the Dayton Accords had been signed because he did not want them to stay in a territory he was not in control of anymore. Ejup Ganic (Beta)

“Serbia poses threat to region”

Ganić says that the Dayton Accords is endangering civil freedoms because it has not provided mechanisms which would make people feel safe.

Civil security in Bosnia-Herzegovina is very threatened and it is one of the reasons why refugees have not returned, he said and added that there were no returnees at all in parts where police were not ethnically balanced.

Situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina is conditioned by relations in the region because regional stability affects civil freedoms in Bosnia, the former member of Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency stressed.

He explained that Bosnia-Herzegovina only had formal instead of essential diplomatic relations with Serbia and that Serbia represented a threat to regional stability.

Ganić pointed out that his country was trying to solve the issue by joining NATO and the EU but he assessed that “it would take a while”.

“We must be more active on the international scene and explain that our security is threatened by the surrounding countries,” he stressed.

“We have to change mechanisms within in order to reintegrate the state because there is no return of refugees due to civil insecurity. Eastern Bosnia is empty, Posavina is empty because someone who persecuted you is often waiting for you there. We don’t have ethnically balanced police and that has given results,” the former member of Bosnian Presidency said.

When asked why refugees did not return to Sarajevo, he said that the reason for that was an economic one.

He also points out that he was against international high representative’s decision to sell state-owned apartments because price of a single apartment in Sarajevo at the time was equal to a price of an apartment in Belgrade and Banja Luka combined. “Economic logic has left us without many former citizens of Sarajevo,” he concluded.

According to him, Radovan Karadžić persecuted about 10,000 ethnic Serbs from Sarajevo after the Dayton Accords had been signed because he did not want them to stay in a territory he was not in control of anymore.

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