Serbia's Tadic continues "greater Serbia" politics - Bosnian Muslim analyst
BBC Monitoring - July 8, 2004

Text of report by Bosnian private Islamic station Radio Naba web site on 8 July

Announcer: The following is an interview conducted by our reporter with Mr Fatmir Alispahic, Bosnian Muslim political analyst.

Reporter: Mr Alispahic, what is your opinion about the possibility of extraordinary elections in the Bosnian Serb entity? What does the government of this entity want to achieve?

Alispahic: Since its establishment, i.e. when the Dayton accord was legalized, the Serb entity government has been creating confusion and blocking all normal processes in Bosnia-Hercegovina. So, this is not a matter of a need for extraordinary elections or of any serious intentions of having them, but a sort of a response, or a threat, that is given after the dismissal of Serb officials by the High Representative to Bosnia-Hercegovina, Paddy Ashdown .

Reporter: You have explored the character of the new Serbian president Boris Tadic in your texts for the media. To what extent will he and his cooperatives work on stabilization of the Bosnian Serb Republic?

Alispahic: I do not think they will do that in any positive sense, neither Boris Tadic nor his cooperatives. This is the same greater Serbia politics but with better democratic speech and rhetoric make-up. Thus, the essence remains the same. Besides, Boris Tadic's father is one of the creators of the SANU Serbian Academy of Science and Arts memorandum in accordance with which the aggression against Bosnia-Hercegovina and genocide were carried out. What is indicative is that all our daily papers in Bosnia-Hercegovina praised the election of Boris Tadic as president of Serbia and wrote: Sarajevo native leads Serbia, Finally democracy, etc. While they were praising Boris Tadic, I managed to notice the things I am speaking about now that this is a continuation of the same greater Serbia politics. After all, that was confirmed when Boris Tadic scheduled his official inauguration for 11 July and clearly demonstrated to which politics he belonged.

SOURCE: Radio Naba web site, Visoko, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1730 gmt 8 Jul 04

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