Nikšić at the corner of the table and pictures: Nermin peeks out maps of the 'Serbian world' and 'Croatian banovina' and gives them legitimacy!

By: Amina Čorbo-Zećo

While the public in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been waiting for Nermin Nikšić's promised apology since January 2023, it is becoming increasingly clear that he still does not want to admit that his partners Dragan Čović and Milorad Dodik are far from ready to work.

„Dragan Čović and Milorad Dodik have shown readiness to work, cooperate, and make agreements. We must not kill this opportunity. If it turns out we are wrong - we will apologize and withdraw", Nikšić said in January 2023.

Today, a year and four months later, Nikšić is at the same table with Aleksandar Vučić and Dodik, who, just before dinner in Mostar on the Day of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, sent old, poisonous messages that BiH makes no sense, and that Republika Srpska will move towards independence!

A secret dinner, but without Judas at the table, showed that Nikšić also believes in the 'Serbian world', and consequently in peaceful dissolution. How else to view Nikšić, the Prime Minister of the Federation (a position belonging to Bosniaks), attending a dinner with Vučić and his company, which is reminiscent of the one in Karađorđevo, where plans for the partition of Bosnia were made.

How to interpret the statement that 'Dodik and Čović are ready to work', to talk about it publicly, and then promise to withdraw, and then ignore it all. Does this mean that Nikšić is ready for the work dictated by Dodik and Čović, and their entire strategy is made up of weakening the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He was superfluous at that table, because Nikšić was not even mentioned on Vučić's official website. He was just an ikebana decorating the table, peeking out from the corner, two seats away from Dodik, just to give them legitimacy that Serbs and Croats are not against Bosniaks after all. Because if one Bosniak (or Bosnian, it doesn't matter anymore) is with them, it means that their political directions are also legalized by Bosniaks.

Nikšić's partners from Trojka, Elmedin Konaković and Edin Forto, were not in Mostar. They are still, although incompetent and incapable, deeply reliant on the international community, hoping it will protect us, and as time goes by, they are actually behaving as if they are part of the international community, not the Bosnian government.

It is evident that there is no readiness on the political scene to talk, negotiate, unblock, solve the daily problems of citizens, except when Dodik and Čović say so. Every other attempt is doomed to failure.

Even the constant humiliation of the Trojka leaders does not satisfy the leaders of the HDZ and SNSD, and how else to call a dinner attended by Nikšić shortly after Dodik, among other things, said this:

„BiH is doomed to disintegration and its very existence destabilizes the region, because in conditions where one side – the Bosniak one, constantly tries to deceive Serbs and Croats, it is impossible to survive.“

Perhaps that is why Nikšić appeared in Mostar, without any announcement or protocol, one might say 'Čović winks, Nikšić jumps', to show that Bosniaks do not want to deceive Serbs or Croats.

And there is a big illogicality there, because Nikšić, for example, was not even invited to the gathering of Bosniaks from the region, which was organized by Elmedin Konaković. Regardless of the fiasco of the gathering and the fact that only marginal figures were present at the meeting, Nikšić clearly no longer knows who he is or to whom he belongs, except that he is ready to 'swallow' much more than his partners Konaković or Forto.

There is no doubt that in Mostar in the last two days there was a gathering of opponents of BiH, who, for some phantom economic issues, undermine the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, under the guise of 'good neighborly relations' and supposed concern for peace, are realizing the project of a composite country concept!

„Together with the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, we feel at home in Mostar and are preparing for the Easter assembly in May“, Vučić will write from Mostar.

That May, if Nikšić missed it, after which, as Dodik announced – nothing will be the same. As if it were any different in the previous year, when 'Trojka' assured us that dialogue and compromise had yielded results. Perhaps they should still be believed, because they have not apologized, which means that the current political situation suits them too, and they do not see the problems that lead to the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which means the realization of the 'Serbian world' and 'Croatian banovina'.