FACTS BOTHER DINA, EVIDENCE DENIS You can't speed up zero speed on the NATO path, that's a state of stagnation!

By: Rasim Belko

To avoid conflict with Milorad Dodik, the "Trojka" parties agreed to conflict with Bosnia and Herzegovina's NATO path. Because the survival of the "Trojka" in power depended and still depends on Dodik, and that is evidently a sufficient motive for Elmedin Konaković, Nermin Nikšić, and Edin Forto to suspend BiH's most important integration path.

In the year of their rule, the illusion they call the European path has gained absolute primacy, while NATO has gradually disappeared even from the formal mention in the integration package.

Elmedin Konaković, a purveyor of fog as he has long been, tries to bill the political project he belongs to, and which he partly leads according to a tried and tested recipe, to someone else.

Konaković bills the inaction of the government vertically to the opposition, and attributes the facts that he sold the NATO path for seats to the Democratic Front, SDA, and Željko Komšić.

Knowing that the first comment on this text will be the phrase "SDFA analysts," I will not deal with Konaković's clashes with political opponents, but with the facts, which are increasingly the biggest opponent of what the president of People and Justice says. Because it is impossible to oppose his work, given that he does nothing concrete.

While, in line with the "they were to blame before" slogan of the "Trojka," he says that the previous state government stopped Bosnia and Herzegovina's NATO path, Konaković shows us that his diplomatic knowledge is also lacking, because the NATO Alliance clearly states that we are a candidate for membership, and the Alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg repeatedly states that as such, we are in the focus of the largest military alliance.

At the same time, Denis Bećirović, a member of the BiH Presidency and a "Trojka" cadre, is convincing the public that we are moving at an accelerated pace towards NATO, and invites members of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) to help us speed up that path. A contradiction that clearly indicates an attempt to shift responsibility in a panic that the public will not expose them.

"Today, I openly called on the North Atlantic Council to help Bosnia and Herzegovina move towards NATO membership with accelerated steps," Bećirović said on February 1st after a meeting with NAC members.

But he forgot that the NAC members are already committed to helping us by coming to Sarajevo, and that he is one of the culprits for why the NATO path is slowed down: Because Bećirović, with the same logic as Konaković, supported Borjana Krišto as the head of the Council of Ministers without guarantees for the NATO path. And now he would lecture us about the NATO path, presumably believing that we have collective amnesia.

Bećirović's claims about accelerating the NATO path and Konaković's about its blockade in the previous BiH Council of Ministers are a clear measure of the madness of the actions and behavior of the entire government apparatus. Bećirović says what he dreams of, and Konaković says what he pleases. Because the former needs to talk about success to use technical equipment and boast about some achievements, and the latter to talk again from small and big screens that nothing was good before him, and now it has dawned.

The facts, however, show that with the departure of the previous Council of Ministers, the NATO path was pushed to the sidelines, that we as a country ignored the obligation to send the Reform Program, that there are no military exercises, even though geopolitical circumstances are forcing the NATO leadership to insist on BiH's entry. At the same time, sessions of the NATO Commission, whatever it is called, are not held, because these sessions are necessary to define our further NATO steps.

And it is completely irrelevant what the Commission is called if it does not do its job. It is then senseless for the somewhat lost and habitually confused Denis Bećirović to invite anyone to help BiH's entry into NATO.

Because that job is up to the BiH authorities, to do what is necessary to primarily reactivate the process, and only then to accelerate it. Zero speed cannot be accelerated, it is a state of stagnation, or hibernation, while occupation threatens us.

Our neighbors are arming themselves and renewing their military service. And we know where they will test both the soldiers' skills and the power of their weapons.

If Bećirović truly cares about initiating the NATO path, then he must bill Borjana Krišto and Zukan Helez to unblock the entire process, so that the national reform program can be adopted. At the same time, Bećirović, as a member of the collective head of state, should demand a more serious engagement from the head of diplomacy and the president of NiP on the political agenda of reviving NATO.

Because Bećirović's self-satisfied theatricality and monologues will not contribute to the NATO path, and especially will not reveal that the same Bećirović supported Krišto before she gave guarantees that she would follow the needs of the NATO path. And that is why Bećirović's calls to NAC or anyone outside the country to help BiH's NATO path are hypocritical, because with his decision, he himself helped block that path.

Just as the habitually innocent Konaković, by avoiding conflict with secessionist Dodik, agreed to the complete exclusion of the NATO agenda from the Council of Ministers.

And when the public realized who was responsible for blocking BiH's most important integration path, he began to weave a propaganda network. However, neither Bećirović's nor Konaković's intention to hide from responsibility will succeed, and the fear of it is evidently pushing them to deceive the public.

Perhaps they made mistakes in their steps before, but these ones are not taking steps, and this cannot be seen as an advantage of political opponents, but as a danger to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.