The Bosnian Serb leader has asked the Serbian President to include the status of their region in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.
“It should be part of the public discourse that it is impossible to talk about a special status of Kosovo without talking about a special status of the Bosnian Serb Republic,” has stated Milorad Dodik, the leader of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dodik, who is also the Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, made the statement during a news conference with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska’s capital.
It comes at a time when the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has just resumed after 20 months of hiatus.
Contrary to Dodik’s claim, the dialogue does not include the status of Kosovo.
Dodik has repeatedly called for the secession of the Republika Srpska from Bosnia.
The entity was created after the Bosnian war with the Dayton peace agreement that divided the country into a Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and a federation dominated by Bosniaks and Croats. The three regions are linked through a weak central government.
None of them can secede unilaterally from Bosnia, according to the agreement.
