"Crimea legally declares independence, Kosovo was illegal"

(Tanjug. file)

"Crimea legally declares independence, Kosovo was illegal"

BANJA LUKA -- President of the Serb Republic, RS, Milorad Dodik stated in Banja Luka that "no parallels can be drawn between the situation in Kosovo and that in Crimea."

This is because Kosovo illegitimately declared independence and violated the UN Charter and the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, the leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina explained.

Dodik noted that the resolution guarantees Serbia its territorial integrity and noted that no referendum was organized in Kosovo.

"The decision on Kosovo's illegal declaration of independence was adopted by a group of individuals who declared themselves the parliament which did not include representatives from the entire territory of Kosovo," the RS president said as reported by the media of the Muslim-Croat entity, the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

“Had Kosovo followed the procedures observed by Crimea, I would gladly say that this was the people's right to self-determination because I want to affirm this right for all peoples and nations, including Bosniaks (Muslims) who wanted to assert their right to self-determination in 1991 in the circumstances of separation from Yugoslavia,” Dodik said.

He recalled that Bosniaks presented themselves as the representatives of the entire BiH using this right and imposed the stereotype according to which Bosnia was constituted with internal contradictions which led to the war.

The war ended by the Dayton Treaty which defined the BiH structure because only such a new concept could survive, Dodik said and underscored that a unitarian Bosnia with greater powers for Sarajevo is not possible.

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