"Crimea legally declares independence, Kosovo was illegal"

"Crimea legally declares independence, Kosovo was illegal"

Dodik noted that the resolution guarantees Serbia its territorial integrity and noted that no referendum was organized in Kosovo.

"The decision on Kosovo's illegal declaration of independence was adopted by a group of individuals who declared themselves the parliament which did not include representatives from the entire territory of Kosovo," the RS president said as reported by the media of the Muslim-Croat entity, the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

“Had Kosovo followed the procedures observed by Crimea, I would gladly say that this was the people's right to self-determination because I want to affirm this right for all peoples and nations, including Bosniaks (Muslims) who wanted to assert their right to self-determination in 1991 in the circumstances of separation from Yugoslavia,” Dodik said.

He recalled that Bosniaks presented themselves as the representatives of the entire BiH using this right and imposed the stereotype according to which Bosnia was constituted with internal contradictions which led to the war.

The war ended by the Dayton Treaty which defined the BiH structure because only such a new concept could survive, Dodik said and underscored that a unitarian Bosnia with greater powers for Sarajevo is not possible.

As for Crimea, Dodik reiterated the RS stand according to which the people of Crimea staged a legitimate democratic referendum in keeping with international laws and the UN Charter on the right of the people to self-determination.

Dodik congratulated the people of Crimea on the democratic and fair referendum and their decision to declare independence which they opted for, and the Tuesday agreement between the Russian Federation and Crimea which entails initiation of procedure for Crimea's inclusion into the framework of the Russian Federation.