Elmedin Konakovic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
Elmedin Konakovic, the foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said on May 27 that the Serbian authorities' reactions ahead of and immediately after the United Nations adopted the Resolution on Srebrenica were theatrics aimed at mobilizing voters for the upcoming local elections in Serbia.
"We saw during the preparations for adopting the resolution that everything tended toward theatrics, putting on a show more to mobilize the voting public in the local election than to enter into the essence of our relations, and I think leadership and brave and right decisions are lacking there, primarily from the Serbian president," he told N1 TV.
He added that ministers from across the world with whom he had spoken were "shocked" by Vucic's behavior at the U.N. and that the best way would have been for Serbia to co-sponsor the resolution.
Konakovic said the resolution brought "peace and a modicum of justice to those who have been demanding it for three decades."
Commenting on announcements by Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik that the entity will break away from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Konakovic said he had been scoring political points that way for 18 years.
He said threats of conflict and demands to keep quiet about what happened in the war came from the base created by Vucic, and that the Serbian president often invoked international law, but was "here flagrantly violating it."
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