People in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated region look up to Serbia and need to “learn to be patient” in order to achieve their interests, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said at a Friday gathering organised by Serbia's ruling party in Belgrade.
The hardline Bosnian Serb leader, who is currently the Chairman of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, was one of the speakers at the massive gathering of supporters of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which was organised as a part of its ‘Future of Serbia’ campaign.
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Before he took the state-level office, Dodik was for years either President or Prime Minister of Republika Srpska (RS), the semi-autonomous mostly Serb entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the leader of the ruling party there.
Serbia’s future entails peace between Serbs and all other peoples living in the Balkans, he said.
“We need to learn to be patient, as only that way we can achieve our interests. Serbia and Serbs in general, as well as we in the RS, very clearly, as opposed to before, can say we have our own stance and we fight for it,” he said.
He called the RS a “state where Serbs live.”
“Serbia is the country we look up to and we feel that is our primary identity,” he said.
