Nikolic: Serbia as a guarantor of the Dayton Treaty

BANJA LUKA - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said that Serbia is a guarantor of the Dayton Peace Accords, which entail the preservation of Republika Srpska (RS), adding that he has exceptionally positive cooperation with RS leadership and President Milorad Dodik.

”The Dayton Treaty was constantly tumbled and it was to remain a dead letter when it comes to Serbs' rights, while Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) was to be promoted through the tumbling of the Dayton Treaty,” Nikolic said in an interview for the Radio Television of RS.

Since the adoption of the Dayton Treaty, there was no wish to build BiH as a country of entities and ethnicities with equal rights and instead, everyone strove to break down RS, he said.

Speaking about the forthcoming October elections in BiH, Nikolic ntoed that as the president of Serbia, he will cooperate with everyone who earns the citizens' trust, noting that it is not up to him to support or not support any political option.

Nikolic said that representatives of Serbia initially planned to visit Sarajevo to mark the 100th anniversary of the Sarajevo Assassination and the beginning of World War I but they decided not to because they do not want to participate in history revisions.

Nikolic stated that the attempted history reviews concerning World War I did not produce the results some might have expected to see and Serbs can thus look forward to the 100th anniversary of World War I with dignity despite certain revisionist tendencies.

“We have faced with dignity the celebration of the 100th anniversary, the memory of our Gavrilo Princip and the entire idea of Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia). This is marvellous for the Serbian people and we are not interested in others'...