PDP: Marina Pendeš will submit the Annual National Programme for NATO

(Patria) - The Party of Democratic Progress announced that Bakir Izetbegović's statement that he, with partners SNSD and HDZ, has found a way to activate the MAP and form a new Council of Ministers will be confirmed as early as next week.

"Dodik is now falsely and perfidiously accusing the opposition, although all documents on BiH's NATO path were signed by SNSD officials, and with Dodik's consent and approval, the BiH Minister of Defence, HDZ's Marina Pendeš, will submit the First Annual National Programme for NATO, thus initiating the activation of the MAP," said Ana Petrović, spokesperson for the party.

“The dirty and shameful attacks on Mladen Ivanić by Milorad Dodik and members of his cabinet are a deliberate diversion from the agreement reached in Ankara for BiH to activate the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP)," said PDP spokesperson Anja Petrović.

"Since the MAP cannot be activated by a letter from one minister, but only by the new Council of Ministers, all of Dodik's moves in recent days confirm Izetbegović's statement. The shameful game of the fickle Dodik is transparent and seen through," Petrović concluded at the end of the statement.