Bosnia and Herzegovina will not fall apart, historian Dragan Markovina told N1 commenting on the ongoing situation in the country, adding that what was written in the Dayton Peace Agreement could last forever. Pročitaj više

Speaking in N1's Pressing, Markovina noted that imposing a civic state and deleting the constituent peoples is not implementable.

“We must learn in this country that we are all not the same, that we differently see many things but that we must accept the minimum of the requests by others,” he stressed.

Asked if Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency, could succeed in seceding Republika Srpska entity, the historian replied that this could cause armed conflicts.

“I don't think this would lead to a major war but it could go as far as to incidents,” he noted.

As for a third entity, that would be the Croat entity, Markovina said that such entity practically exists in those municipalities where the HDZ BiH – the main Croat party in BiH, is in power.

Bosnia and Herzegovina should be a secular, modern state, the historian said, adding that the widely used term “pro-Bosnian” should be replaced by “pro-Bosnian-Herzegovinian,” in order for the Herzegovina people, regardless of their political or ethnic affiliation, to feel accepted.

Speaking about the country's current arrangement and its two entities – the Serb-majority Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation, Markovina said that it was the Dayton Peace Agreement that stopped the war but it legalised “ethnic space for one people.”

“It is not moral but the act of signing had normalised it,” he stressed.

However, Markovina noted, a great majority of the citizens is choosing such politics.

“BiH is a true reflection of what its citizen want, it is devastating and sad but that's how it is,” he concluded.