Meeting between Izetbegović, Čović and Dodik by the end of the week, NATO in focus of talks

SARAJEVO, (Patria) - Leaders of SNSD, HDZ and SDA will meet by the end of the week to discuss the formation of executive power in BiH.

"SNSD will reiterate at the meeting that it has nothing against BiH cooperating with NATO, but at the level at which Serbia cooperates with the North Atlantic Alliance," Ratko Kovačević told Radio Republike Srpske.

Kovačević expects this to be the most important topic of discussion between Milorad Dodik, Dragan Čović and Bakir Izetbegović.

He added that SNSD is not giving up on the principles established in the National Assembly of Srpska regarding the NATO action plan, nor on the number of ministerial positions that, according to the BiH Constitution, belong to parties from Republika Srpska (RS).

Kovačević stated that BiH, and especially RS and its citizens, have "undeservedly been in some kind of hostage crisis and unsettled political relations in FBiH".

He said that SDA "did not have the courage to enter the process of forming government on its own", and that it "did everything to break up the so-called BiH bloc and pull out DF", and that in the end, Fahrudin Radončić, i.e. SBB BiH, joined these parties.