Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Bećirović, said today that the Presidency did not approve the entry of members of the Serbian Armed Forces into Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on the occasion of the presence of the Serbian Armed Forces at the parade ahead of the commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Kozara. As reported by RSE, Bećirović scheduled a meeting with Kristijan Šmit, the high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Also, as he stated, within the plan of bilateral cooperation between the Ministry of Defense of BiH and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia, this activity is not planned.
According to Bećirović, "the parade of the Serbian Army in Prijedor, a city where non-Serbs were marked with white ribbons before being taken to death concentration camps, represents another announcement of the beginning of the realization of Vučić's Greater Serbia and anti-Dayton declaration, adopted on June 8 in Belgrade."
News about the presence of the Serbian Army at the parade in the neighboring state of Bosnia and Herzegovina was announced by the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. of the RS entity Milorad Dodik on his account on the X network with the comment: "Finally".
Member of the BiH Presidency, Željko Komšić, said that it must be determined who allowed the entry of the Serbian Army into the territory of BiH.
"The first and basic question here is, who approved the entry of the Serbian army into Bosnia and Herzegovina?" The BiH Presidency did not do that," Komisic told Radio Sarajevo and asked if the Ministry of Defense did it.
"That must be determined immediately. If not the Ministry of Defense either, then it is a classic act of aggression," said Komšić.
BiH Defense Minister Zukan Helez said today for Klix.ba that the BiH Ministry of Defense did not invite or approve the entry of Serbian Army soldiers into BiH. "We did not invite them, the Ministry of Defense of BiH has nothing to do with this and this is not in the plan of military bilateral cooperation between BiH and Serbia," Helez said.
According to his knowledge, these are not "real" soldiers, but cadets of the Military Academy from Serbia.
"However, they could not enter unless someone invited them, someone had to invite them from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is about cadets, it is not the army, it comes under education and it is someone else's responsibility," said Helez, stating that with an officer can also come to them, but it is a professor.
"Until he finishes and gets his rank, a cadet is not a soldier." According to our information, I think that the Ministry of Labor and Veterans' and Disability Protection of Republika Srpska found some legal basis to invite them as students, and then to present it as an army," Helez concluded.
As RTRS reported, Serbian Minister of Labour, Veterans and Social Affairs Nemanja Starović and State Secretary in that ministry Zoran Antić were also in the parade.
During the last war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3.176 people were killed in Prijedor and the surrounding towns.
About 30.000 persons of non-Serb nationality also passed through the Trnopolje, Omarska and Keraterm camps in Prijedor.
Source: FoNet, RFE/RL
