Idea of Great Serbia Still Threatens Bosnia

Serbia has not given up on Milosevic's project and the idea of possibly annexing Republika Srpska to Serbia is still alive in Belgrade.

“The idea of great Serbia still poses a threat to forming a unified Bosnia and Herzegovina state, and Serbia has not yet given up on the ideas of annexing a part of B-H,” said the president of the Helsinki Committee at a conference on B-H and the Serbian national project in Belgrade on Tuesday.

“Serbia has not given up on the project that Milosevic had set,” Helsinki Committee for Human Rights president Sonja Biserko pointed out. The Committee organized the conference. Biserko thinks that “Belgrade’s politics is still directed toward Republika Srpska (RS) and the ideas about its possible annexation to Serbia, which is to say the creation of the so-called great Serbia, are still in effect.” 

At the conference “Bosnia and Herzegovina: part of the Serbian national project,” Biserko said that the government in Belgrade, with Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica at the helm, hopes that there will be a change in the constellation of power in the world and relies on Russia’s support, which is evident in the case of the Kosovo status. 

“Linking the issue of the Kosovo status with the issue of Republika Srpska is Belgrade’s strategic story, a problem because those who advocate it act as if they were not aware of the new reality,” she warned.  

At the conference, there was also mention of the fact that, even after 12 years, B-H does not function as a unified state, integration did not happen and it will be achieved only after the relativization of the position of RS in the Federation of B-H.