Dodik: We'll Consider High Representative's Track Record in Belgrade
A Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, said that he would never vote for an annual national programme as it would activate the Membership Action Plan, opening the door to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Dodik said that the members of the Presidency agreed that a vote on the annual national programme be removed from the Aug. 20 agenda, after which a special session to discuss the inauguration of the new chairman of the Council of Ministers was cancelled as well.
The three members of the Bosnian presidency, Milorad Dodik, Zeljko Komsic and Sefi Dzaferovic, agreed that both the regular session, scheduled for Aug. 20, and the special session be cancelled, but Dodik said that everyone was trying to leave the door ajar for a new agreement, eliminating a chance of outvoting each other.
Dodik said the country was facing a completely new deadlock.
"It's not fair that the three leaders' agreement to inaugurate a new government be made conditional on the annual programme," Dodik said.
He explained that a decision to remove it from the agenda was the result of Komsic's meeting with the U.S. and British ambassadors on Aug. 19, and that it was made to prevent new escalations in Bosnia.
The Bosnian Serb member of the Presidency also said that one of the suggestions was that the Council of Ministers be formed, and that the chairman of the Presidency sent the annual national programme to Brussels, which was unacceptable for Dodik, because the move would activate the Membership Action Plan.
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