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Republika Srpska: We want a military alliance with Serbia and Hungary

Politiko 2025-04-04 18:05:09

Republika Srpska: We want a military alliance with Serbia and Hungary

Republika Srpska will seek to join an alliance with Serbia and Hungary, the leader of this Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, said on Friday. Dodik said he will submit the request at a session of the Republika Srpska government on Saturday.

"Republika Srpska should never agree to be part of the NATO alliance. Tomorrow we have an expanded session of the Government of Republika Srpska and we will demand that it be included in the military and security agreement with Serbia and Hungary. We have the right to do this," Dodik said in Banja Luka.

However, the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina prohibits the country's entities from having the powers to conduct foreign and military policy. This right is enjoyed only by the central institutions of Bosnia. According to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation are entities that constitute Bosnia and they do not enjoy state powers.

The Constitution allows the entities to conclude agreements with states and international organizations, but with the consent of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia, which may provide by law that such consent is not required for certain types of agreements.

They also have the right to establish special parallel relations with neighboring states, but only in accordance with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Hungarian government, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has for years focused its attention on Republika Srpska, and not on all of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also helped the Dodik government with a loan from the Hungarian state bank.

Orban, his party, and his officials met exclusively with state officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina only until 2019. The first meeting between Dodik and Orban in June 2019 paved the way for "direct ties between Hungary and Republika Srpska," as the Hungarian prime minister called them, which later turned into an economic cooperation program.

In 2021, Orban blocked a German initiative to impose European sanctions on Dodik for undermining Bosnia's institutions. Dodik is under sanctions by the United States and the United Kingdom for this and for corruption allegations.

Hungary is the only EU member state that sided with Serbia and the authorities of Republika Srpska at the UN General Assembly and voted against the adoption of the resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica in May 2024./ REL

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