PM visits Bosnia, calls for "trust and cooperation"

PM visits Bosnia, calls for "trust and cooperation"

SARAJEVO -- Aleksandar Vučić said he was in Sarajevo as a friend and a representative of a country that respects the territorial integrity of Bosnia and of the RS.

The Serbian prime minister said on Tuesday that his was a country "that wants to build trust and incomparably better relations."

"I expect to see the same wish in Bosnia-Herzegovina. There does not need to be much love, but there needs to be respect and esteem. You have that on the Serbian side," Vučić told a press conference after a meeting with the Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Council of Ministers Vjekoslav Bevanda.

"That is the most honest thing Serbia can do, and also what Serbia wants from Bosnia," he stressed.

Responding to allegations in the press, Vučić was quick to clear all doubts about how Sarajevo became the destination of his first visit.

"No one has made me come. I have read various made-up stories about this, but I am the one making the decisions. That is a message to those who think that Europeans or Turkey were working on this visit," Vučić said.

Asked by reporters which the "real" Vučić is - the one who was a nationalist in the 1990s, or the one who on Monday said that nothing can destroy Bosnia-Herzegovina - the Serbian prime minister responded that many people have failed to realize what changes have occurred in the world and the region, adding that he has no intention of endearing himself to the Bosnian public or responding to media speculations.

"Some people simply do not understand what happened in the meantime. Just like people in Serbia had not understood what happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall, some people here did...