Milorad Dodik's secession announcement is just one of his typical “big words, with no action,” former Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency and prime minister of Republika Srpska entity Mladen Ivanic told N1, commenting on the latest statements on independence of Republika Srpska made by entity president Milorad Dodik.

“I would like to remind you of everything he said and what actually happened; did he say we would get our army, that we would get our indirect taxation administration, that there will be no Agency for Medicines of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that he will never sign the (NATO's) Annual National Plan, that there will be no training with British soldiers? That's only one of the big words and nothing specific will happen. I just wonder why is he doing that? There is no special occasion for that,” Ivanic said, speaking in N1's Pressing show.

According to him, sometimes it happens that Sarajevo conveys messages that “justify such Dodik's moves” and this is how they “feed each other.”

“Before tensions and narrative from Sarajevo do not calm down, it is not realistic to expect that the citizens in Republika Srpska will get a chance to think differently,” said Ivanic, the honorary president of the PDP, one of the largest opposition parties in Republika Srpska.

Asked to comment on the coalition at the state level, which Dodik and his SNSD party are part of, Ivanic said he was convinced that once the government is formed and posts are distributed it will all go back to the old rhetoric.

“It has already started,” said Ivanic, noting that they are lacking a “minimum common concept” and that nothing will change in BiH until it is found.

Speaking further about Dodik's secession announcements, Ivanic said that geopolitical conditions for that step do not exist.

“It wouldn't get the support of Croatia, or Serbia or Turkey, let me say it. Serbia cannot support it because of Kosovo, and it won't. I think it is a political story that emerges from time to time for Dodik to gain political support. I repeat, it comes alongside the exclusiveness coming from one part of Sarajevo, this feeds one part of the public and then Dodik appears as a big guardian,” he said.