Milanović in defense of Dodik: Colonizer and retired politician Šmit

Croatian President Zoran Milanović said, commenting on the indictment in Bosnia and Herzegovina against Milorad Dodik, that the high representative of the international community, Kristijan Šmit, is a colonial administrator in that country.

"BiH is a sloppily, sloppily, incompetently managed colony where a handful of third-rate bureaucrats who can invent new crimes live on," Milanović told Croatian media.

He also called Schmidt a retired German politician who has left no trace and is "protecting his butt."

As he explains, Šmit was "installed as the colonial administrator in Bosnia and Herzegovina" by someone from the outside, although "there is no mandate from the UN Security Council" and that some embassies, citing the American one, are behind his moves.

"Is this a way to calm the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to de-escalate it?" asked Milanović and added that he will continue to invite all "factors of this area - Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks" to talk, but without "colonial managers".

The Croatian president assessed that Schmidt changes the laws as he wants, but that this was not the case a year ago when it was possible to change the electoral law in BiH and prevent Bosniaks from electing a Croatian member of the Presidency.

"He didn't do that, but in order to protect his reputation, he changed the criminal law according to which what Dodik did is a criminal act." It's called colonial rule and it's destroying that country," he told reporters.

Dodik: Partner from Vučić's helicopter

At the end of last month, Dodik traveled to Hvar in a Serbian Army helicopter, which was registered as a civilian, to meet with Milanović. At the meeting, they discussed the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the country's relations with Croatia.

After the meeting with Milanović, Dodik also flew to Aleksandar Vučić, where many media and critics saw the deeper meaning of Dodik's visit to Milanović - as one that aims to show that Vučić is the man who manages Dodik, and Dodik is a special link between Vučić and Milanović. .

In response to these reactions, Dodik said that he did not see anything objectionable in the fact that he used the helicopter used by the President of Serbia, because it was a civilian, not a military aircraft, and that those who question it "have no idea about life."

"It is the helicopter used by Vučić, ours is on regular service. I asked him to give it to me, there are no problems," he said in an interview published by the Banja Luka newspaper Glas Srpske.

Croatian media often ask Milanović questions about Dodik. So last year, the president, speaking about the national interests of Croatia, said that for him Dodik is a partner, not a Chetnik.

"Dodik is the leader of a small community, from before the war one million two hundred thousand Serbs, now around 900 thousand Serbs." After all, Serbs are a close people to us".

To the journalist's statement that Republika Srpska was founded on crimes, Milanović replied:

"America was founded on crimes against natives." The French Revolution was founded on crime and mass executions of friars, Franciscans and priests. Who recognized them in Dayton? - Croatia. Who made Dayton possible - the Croatian army, President Tuđman".

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