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“The stoking of tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina should come to an finish. Measures by the worldwide neighborhood and particularly the EU are fueling the hazard of ever new escalations utterly unnecessarily,” complained International Minister Péter Szijjártó on Wednesday in Budapest.
At a joint press convention with Milorad Dodik, President of the Republika Srpska, Hungary’s chief diplomat described peace and stability within the Western Balkans as the important thing to peace and stability in the entire of Europe. As a direct neighbour of the area, Hungary will put its Council Presidency, which begins in July, on the service of this trigger.
EU integration may ease tensions
Szijjártó expressed his conviction that the advanced historical past carries tensions into the current day, which EU integration can greatest assist to resolve. As a substitute, new selections are made repeatedly in worldwide committees and at EU headquarters that erase any hard-fought outcome within the blink of an eye fixed.
The March determination to start accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina was adopted by the Excessive Consultant’s “unilateral interference within the nation’s inner affairs by arbitrarily altering the electoral regulation,” complained the Hungarian International Minister, with out naming the CSU politician Christian Schmidt, who has held this delicate place since 2021. In the identical vein, Péter Szijjártó positioned the UN initiative to attribute the Srebrenica tragedy “in a demonizing method to your complete Serbian nation.” Hungary will clearly reject this request.
Exterior interference
“Tensions are being stirred up utterly unnecessarily. We want to urgently ask the circles behind this to chorus from doing this,” mentioned Szijjártó. The worldwide neighborhood should lastly cease threatening Bosnia and Herzegovina with sanctions and utilizing power to intrude in its inner affairs.
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