Vucic comments on Dod and the situation in BiH: "The easiest thing is to shift the blame to the Serb side"

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President Aleksandar Vucic said yesterday evening, after a meeting with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, that they agreed dialogue and compromise are of key importance for finding solutions, but that he does not share Lammy's opinion regarding the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and pointed out that Milorad Dodik is not responsible for it.

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"We spoke about regional issues. Regardless of our differences about Kosovo and Metohija, both sides believe that dialogue is of key importance and that problems should be solved through talks, and compromise solutions should be found," Vucic told reporters in Belgrade's Villa Mir.

When it comes to the situation in BiH, Vucic said that he does not share Lammy's opinion regarding who is responsible for that situation and that he cannot agree that what's to blame are "Milorad Dodik's unconstitutional actions."

"And I call on everyone from abroad try to find a compromise solution, to try to find solutions that are agreed upon, and I can now talk for hours about it, from property to all other issues where it was not Dodik's fault, but someone else's, it's just that the easiest thing is to shift the blame to the Serb side, something that has become customary since the 1990s and I'm referencing Mt. Lammy the least, but others who are incomparably more vocal," said Vucic.

He stressed that Serbia will always respect the Dayton Agreement, and accordingly the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"We don't want any conflicts, we are making excellent progress, we have a high growth rate regardless of all the problems we are facing, and this year we will be among the first three or four countries in terms of growth rate in Europe. We need rapid economic development and that is the most important thing for us," said Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)