Bosnian Ambassador Says His Invitation to Consultations from Komsic, Becirovic Illegal

Aleksandar Vranjes (Photo: PrintScreen YouTube)

Bosnian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandar Vranjes has said that the invitation to consultations sent to him by two members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Becirovic and Zeljko Komsic, was completely illegal.

"Two members of the Presidency of [Bosnia] can't make any decision without the third, Serb member of the Presidency, because that would violate the Constitution," Vranjes told Radio Television Republika Srpska.

Komsic and Becirovic called the ambassador in for consultations because, in a recent meeting in Belgtrade, he thanked Serbian Security and Information Agency director Aleksandar Vulin for making it possible for two Serb students from Sarajevo who took to social media to extol Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide in Srebrenica, on the day of a commemoration in Potocari, to continue their university studies.

Vranjes said that "the scandal with the students who, just because they expressed an opinion different from the positions of the Bosniak political elite, lost the right to their education in Sarajevo and were nearly lynched in the city where they came to study, would never have happened in Banjaluka or East Sarajevo."

Republika Srpska "does not accept Sarajevo's narratives, because here Gen. Ratko Mladic is a hero," added Vranjes, who feels he did not make a misstep in meeting with Vulin, but rather that it was his obligation.