BANJALUKA – The document on the so-called “peaceful dissolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina” was not discussed by the members of the National Assembly on 9 July, as it had been originally planned. The Speaker of the Parliament in Banjaluka Nenad Stevandić confirmed for Radio Free Europe that the proposal had been withdrawn from the agenda, but did not answer the question of who proposed such a document.
Stevandić said that it had been proposed by the members of the National Assembly, without stating any specific name.
The proposal for the peaceful dissolution was recently announced by President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and officially drafted by the Government of RS.
Dodik outlined the details of the plan in his interview with Sputnik on 28 June. He stressed that the Government and the National Assembly of Republika Srpska would stand behind the document on the peaceful dissolution of BiH, making it Srpska’s official proposal.
According to Dodik, the proposal was created considering the impossibility of BiH functioning normally, even within the framework of the 1995 Dayton Agreement.
He claimed that the Agreement had been undermined by foreign interventions, with the assistance of the Bosniaks and without consulting the other two nations in BiH, the Serbs and Croats. On the other hand, the political analysts said that the plan for the peaceful dissolution was not a feasible solution, but “an expression of political bluff”.
Coincidentely or not, Ana Brnabić, Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia, visited Banjaluka on 9 July, i.e. the day when the initiative should have been discussed by the Parliament of Republika Srpska.
Speaking at the ceremonial session of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, Brnabić said that Serbia loved RS, but also respected the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and wanted to establish the best possible relations with Sarajevo.
It has been the first visit by a Serbian official to Banjaluka after the so-called “All-Serb Assembly” took place in Belgrade last month.
During the “All-Serb Assembly”, the governments of Republika Srpska and Serbia adopted the “Declaration on the protection of national and political rights and the common future of the Serbian people”.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that in the Declaration there was no word on the separation of RS and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.