Brnabic: Serbia wants peace, stability, cooperation, pleads for full respect for Dayton agreement

BANJALUKA - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic called on Tuesday in Banjaluka for respect for the Dayton Peace Agreement and Republika Srpska.

Serbia wants peace, stability and cooperation and pleads for full respect for the Dayton Peace Agreement, which defines Bosnia and Herzegovina as two entities and three constitutive nations, with Republika Srpska inviolable and undisputed, Brnabic said in an address at a ceremonial session of the Republika Srpska National Assembly.

"Serbia respects the Dayton Peace Agreement. We also plead for respect for the Serbs and all their rights, wherever they may live. We are against erosion of the Dayton Agreement and, in particular, against questioning the powers of Republika Srpska," Brnabic said.

She said that, by an incredible inversion, those who constantly invoked respect for the Dayton Peace Agreement were being branded as wanting instability and problems, while those who were publicly stating that things would be better without the Agreement were being portrayed as advocating peace and stability.

"But the opposite is true," Brnabic noted.

"Serbia respects the Dayton Agreement and the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the inviolability of Republika Srpska. Those who are publicly expressing a desire for destruction of the Dayton Agreement want uncertainty and problems in the region," Brnabic said.