"Turkey has hidden Balkan agenda"

RS PM Milorad Dodik has stated that Serbia does not have a mandate to solve political issues on behalf of the Bosnian Serb entity. He warned Belgrade about Turkey’s policy toward the region. "Turkey has hidden Balkan agenda" “We haven’t given anybody mandate to solve issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina with Turkey in this way,” he commented on the signing of the Istanbul Declaration. Dodik said that Belgrade’s diplomatic cooperation with Turkey was a “defeat of the Serbian policy” and stated that current events in Serbia's southwestern Sandzak region were a consequence of the fact that Turkey was allowed to interfere in Bosnia-Herzegovina's interior issues. “Turkey has a hidden goal – to create Bosnia to fit the Bosniaks and support Haris Silajdzic and Reis Mustafa Ceric’s concept according to which Bosnia-Herzegovina is a land of Bosniaks,” he pointed out. The premier repeated that Bosnia, made up of the Serb republic, and the Muslim-Croat Federation, "does not have a future", and that it was a country that was “sustained by force on IV fluids of the international factors, and on fear of the great powers”. Dodik stressed that RS authorities should respect the Dayton Accords, “everything that is its wording, and not its spirit, as promoted by foreigners”. The Istanbul Declaration was signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Serbian President Boris Tadic and Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Presidency Haris Silajdzic several months ago.

"Turkey has hidden Balkan agenda"

“We haven’t given anybody mandate to solve issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina with Turkey in this way,” he commented on the signing of the Istanbul Declaration.

Dodik said that Belgrade’s diplomatic cooperation with Turkey was a “defeat of the Serbian policy” and stated that current events in Serbia's southwestern Sandžak region were a consequence of the fact that Turkey was allowed to interfere in Bosnia-Herzegovina's interior issues.

“Turkey has a hidden goal – to create Bosnia to fit the Bosniaks and support Haris Silajdžić and Reis Mustafa Cerić’s concept according to which Bosnia-Herzegovina is a land of Bosniaks,” he pointed out.

The premier repeated that Bosnia, made up of the Serb republic, and the Muslim-Croat Federation, "does not have a future", and that it was a country that was “sustained by force on IV fluids of the international factors, and on fear of the great powers”.

Dodik stressed that RS authorities should respect the Dayton Accords, “everything that is its wording, and not its spirit, as promoted by foreigners”.

The Istanbul Declaration was signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Serbian President Boris Tadić and Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Presidency Haris Silajdžić several months ago.