Two words raise tension in the Balkans… and Washington issues a warning

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Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said: "I dream of uniting SerbsAs all my grandparents dreamed of. I know that one day (the dream) will come true in peace, without violence and without conflict".

This statement came in response to a statement from US Embassy In Belgrade Monday that "The statements of the Minister of the Interior regarding the unification of all Serbs into one state are inconsistent with the Dayton Agreement and contradict the integration of Serbia into European institutions".

The Washington-sponsored Dayton peace agreement reached in 1995 ended the Bosnian war, which had claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced millions.

It also created Bosnia divided into a fragile federation linking an area administered by Bosnian Serbs with another administered by Bosnians and Croats.

Bosnian Serb leaders are demanding that they quit the unity government and join neighboring Serbia.

The statement of the US embassy came in response to Folin’s interview with the official newspaper Politica, in which he said that "The only way to maintain stability in the Balkans is for Serbs to live in one country".

Serbs were blamed for starting the bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, as part of a nationalist call to create "Greater Serbia"unites all the Balkan lands where Serbs live, with Serbia.

Call "Serbian world" She is a repeat of an invitation "Russian world" Launched by Moscow with the aim of establishing another Soviet Union or a Russian Empire under Moscow’s control, Ukraine also includes.

Despite its formal bid to join the European Union, Russia’s ally Serbia has refused to participate in Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.

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Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said: “I dream of unification SerbsAs all my grandparents dreamed of. I know that one day (the dream) will come true in peace, without violence and without conflict.”

This statement came in response to a statement from US Embassy In Belgrade on Monday that “the statements of the Minister of the Interior regarding the unification of all Serbs in one state are inconsistent with the Dayton Agreement and contradict the integration of Serbia into European institutions.”

The Washington-sponsored Dayton peace agreement reached in 1995 ended the Bosnian war, which had claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced millions.

It also created Bosnia divided into a fragile federation linking an area administered by Bosnian Serbs with another administered by Bosnians and Croats.

Bosnian Serb leaders are demanding that they quit the unity government and join neighboring Serbia.

The US embassy statement came in response to Volin’s interview with the official Politica newspaper, in which he said that “the only way to maintain stability in the Balkans is for Serbs to live in one state.”

The Serbs were blamed for starting the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, as part of a nationalist call to create a “Greater Serbia”, uniting all the Balkan lands where Serbs live, with Serbia.

The call for the “Serbian world” is a repetition of the call for the “Russian world” made by Moscow with the aim of establishing another Soviet Union or a Russian empire under Moscow’s control, including Ukraine.

Despite its formal bid to join the European Union, Russia’s ally Serbia has refused to participate in Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.

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