Bosnian Serb leader ready to compromise
October 30, 2010
SARAJEVO: Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is willing to compromise on
reforming Bosnia’s central government as the international community demands,
Russia’s ambassador here said in an interview published on Friday.
“Dodik is ready to make a deal. I understand that (the political leaders) in
the Republika Srpska are ready to agree and compromise but under the condition
that the interests of the RS are respected,” Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko told
the Oslobodjenje newspaper.
Moscow is considered to be a close ally of the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska,
one of the semi-autonomous entities that make up post-war Bosnia together with
the Muslim Croat Federation.
Immediately after the Oct.3 general elections the European Union and the United
States called on the newly-elected leaders to compromise to strengthen Bosnia’s
weak central government and make the ethnically-divided country easier to run.
During the election campaign hardliner Dodik vowed that he would not support
any move that would weaken the far-reaching autonomy of the Bosnian Serb entity.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/b91863ac-86e0-46bb-bafa-cf79e4141380.aspx
Agence France-Presse
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