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Matthew
Sep 29, 2023, 7:49:35 PM9/29/23
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[NSC Spokesman John]
Kirby revealed, “We are monitoring a large Serbian deployment along the border of Kosovo," including "unprecedented forward deployment of artillery, tanks, and service members.” “We are calling on Serbia to withdraw those forces.”
Matthew
Jan 8, 2024, 1:40:10 PM1/8/24
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>Two F-16 fighter jets will fly over Bosnia on Monday to underline U.S. support for its territorial integrity against "secessionist activity" by Serbs at odds with the country's 1990s Dayton peace accords, the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo said.
>An embassy statement referred to renewed separatist agitation by Milorad Dodik, the nationalist, pro-Russian leader of Bosnia's post-war Serb region who has long called for it to secede and join its neighbouring ally Serbia.
>"The United States has underscored that the Bosnia-Herzegovina Constitution provides no right of secession, and it will act if anyone tries to change this basic element of Dayton," the embassy statement added.
>On Monday evening Bosnian Serbs will begin celebrations of their self-proclaimed statehood day, which was banned as discriminatory against non-Serbs by Bosnia´s constitutional court. A parade of police and special forces is slated for Tuesday.
>Dodik faces Sarajevo state court charges for having signed RS legislation suspending decisions of the constitutional court and the international envoy who oversees the implementation of the Dayton accords.
>Dodik's trial for defying the rulings of the peace envoy should have begun on Dec. 20 but was adjourned until Jan. 20 over procedural issues brought up by his legal team. Dodik has refused to enter a plea.
https://archive.is/NGesh
>Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings
>He said any any attempt to use international intervention to further strengthen Bosnia’s shared, multiethnic institutions will be met by Bosnian Serb decision to abandon them completely and take the country back to the state of disunity and dysfunction it was in at the end of its brutal interethnic war in the 1990s.
>Because Western democracies will not be agreeable to that, he added, “in the next stage, we will be forced by their reaction to declare full independence” of the Serb-controlled regions of Bosnia.
>There are widespread fears that Russia is trying to destabilize Bosnia and the rest of the region to shift at least some world attention from its war in Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/bosnian-serbs-secession-threat-1072c96ce29c1f118a9b5a84bbd5ff9e
>An embassy statement referred to renewed separatist agitation by Milorad Dodik, the nationalist, pro-Russian leader of Bosnia's post-war Serb region who has long called for it to secede and join its neighbouring ally Serbia.
>"The United States has underscored that the Bosnia-Herzegovina Constitution provides no right of secession, and it will act if anyone tries to change this basic element of Dayton," the embassy statement added.
>On Monday evening Bosnian Serbs will begin celebrations of their self-proclaimed statehood day, which was banned as discriminatory against non-Serbs by Bosnia´s constitutional court. A parade of police and special forces is slated for Tuesday.
>Dodik faces Sarajevo state court charges for having signed RS legislation suspending decisions of the constitutional court and the international envoy who oversees the implementation of the Dayton accords.
>Dodik's trial for defying the rulings of the peace envoy should have begun on Dec. 20 but was adjourned until Jan. 20 over procedural issues brought up by his legal team. Dodik has refused to enter a plea.
https://archive.is/NGesh
>Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings
>He said any any attempt to use international intervention to further strengthen Bosnia’s shared, multiethnic institutions will be met by Bosnian Serb decision to abandon them completely and take the country back to the state of disunity and dysfunction it was in at the end of its brutal interethnic war in the 1990s.
>Because Western democracies will not be agreeable to that, he added, “in the next stage, we will be forced by their reaction to declare full independence” of the Serb-controlled regions of Bosnia.
>There are widespread fears that Russia is trying to destabilize Bosnia and the rest of the region to shift at least some world attention from its war in Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/bosnian-serbs-secession-threat-1072c96ce29c1f118a9b5a84bbd5ff9e
Matthew
Jan 13, 2024, 12:00:45 PM1/13/24
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>US approves $75 million sale of anti-tank missiles to Kosovo after Serbia flare-up
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2024/01/12/US-approves-75-million-sale-of-anti-tank-missiles-to-Kosovo-after-Serbia-flare-up
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2024/01/12/US-approves-75-million-sale-of-anti-tank-missiles-to-Kosovo-after-Serbia-flare-up
Matthew
Mar 12, 2025, 12:10:30 PMMar 12
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>Bosnian Serb leader Dodik calls for Russia's help after arrest warrant
>European peacekeeping forces deploy reserves
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bosnian-prosecutors-order-arrest-bosnian-serb-leader-dodik-2025-03-12
>European peacekeeping forces deploy reserves
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bosnian-prosecutors-order-arrest-bosnian-serb-leader-dodik-2025-03-12
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