The Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Presidency, Milorad Dodik, in cahoots with Russian diplomats, tried to prevent BiH’s ambassador to the UN from voting in favour of a General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
BiH media on Thursday ran a copy of a letter that Dodik had sent as a member of the BiH Presidency to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres through the mediation of the Russian mission to the UN, in which Dodik claims that BiH does not have “a position” on the Ukraine crisis.
Russian diplomats conveyed Dodik’s letter to Guterres in which he claimed that the BiH Ambassador to the UN, Sven Alkalaj, did not have the authority to support the resolution condemning Russia’s aggression and demanded that Alkalaj be prevented from voting on the resolution.
Dodik further accused Alkalaj of abuse of power and of “threatening the reconciliation process and the reforms achieved in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
“Bosnia and Herzegovina has to be impartial and neutral and not support any side in the conflict but instead support peace and a peaceful solution to this situation,” Dodik said in the letter published by the Klix news website.
He added that should his letter be ignored a situation would emerge of “unlawful representation based on false pretences exclusively aimed at spreading misinformation that does not portray the real situation in BiH”.
