3/2 It is necessary that the global community observe the close ties between RS and the Russian Federation, as well as impose any additional sanctions to ensure Russian oligarchs are not able to evade those currently imposed on them.”
Just in: “The Charles de Gaulle Aircraft carrier is currently conducting operational training in the Mediterranean Sea and, from Monday 7th March, its Rafale aircraft will conduct overflights of the Western Balkans including BiH.”
Moscow hasn’t made an announcement about Patrushev’s trip. The talks are reportedly to focus on Moscow’s claims that “mercenaries” from Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia are being sent from those Balkan states to fight on the Ukrainian side
10/9 “Dodik, who currently serves as the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, has spearheaded measures to obstruct the central government after a former peace envoy imposed a law criminalising the denial of genocide and war crimes in end-July.”
adding the Serb leadership did not plan to take any military measures. However Dodik, a staunch supporter of Russia, has earlier said that unidentified "friends" had promised help to the Serb Republic in case of "Western military intervention" against the region.
10/15 Dodik said he was not going for the secession of the Serb Republic but for its full autonomy within Bosnia, which would not affect the country's territorial integrity. "There is no war, there will be no war and there is no possibility for the war," he said,(
12/10 Derek Chollet, a senior adviser to secretary of state〜visited Bosnia last month /Jelena Subotić, a political science professor〜“A much bigger question is if the people ofR〜 Srpska will follow.It is one thing to engage in nationalist rhetoric,it is another to actually pick up arms.”
10/10 He said that while the goal of all three countries was to be part of the European family, “while this family has its own problems, we can’t be hostages of the past or of disagreements”.
Balkan nations bank on regional ties after EU snub/ “What can I do, cry and [go on] hunger strike in [front of the] Berlaymont?” he asked, referring to the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels. “I am not going to do that, no one is going to do that.”