The Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Bećirović, said that the Presidency did not approve the entry of members of the Serbian Armed Forces into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Also, as he stated, within the plan of bilateral cooperation between the Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Defense of Serbia, this activity is not planned.
Bećirović pointed out that the competent state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina, must establish all the circumstances and facts related to that event as soon as possible.
Members of the Serbian Armed Forces held a ceremonial parade through Prijedor today, ahead of the commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Kozara, the entity Radio and Television of Republika Srpska (RTRS) reported.
As reported by RTRS, these are cadets and elders of the Military Academy in Belgrade.
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According to Bećirović, "the parade of the Serbian Army in Prijedor, a city where non-Serbs were marked with white ribbons before being taken to death concentration camps, represents another announcement of the beginning of the implementation of Vučić's [Aleksandar, President of Serbia] Greater Serbia and anti-Dayton declaration, adopted on 8 June in Belgrade".
The "All-Serbian" Assembly was held on June 8 in Belgrade, and at the joint session of the Government of Serbia and the Republika Srpska entity, the Declaration on the Protection of National and Political Rights and the Common Future of the Serbian People was adopted.
Bećirović emphasized that the international community "must take seriously and in time the dangerous content of the adopted declaration of the so-called All-Serbian Parliament, which represents a flagrant violation of international law and the sovereignty of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina."
"It [the declaration] represents an undermining of the fundamental principles on which the European Union rests and the basic international principles on which interstate relations of United Nations members are based. That is why I scheduled a meeting with the high representative of the international community in BiH, Kristijan Šmit, for tomorrow [July 8]." , stated Bećirović.
Željko Komšić, a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is responsible for defense and foreign policy, reacted today on Facebook saying that "it must be determined immediately who allowed the Serbian Army to enter the territory of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina".
"The BiH Presidency did not do it. Did the Ministry of Defense do it? That must be determined immediately. If it was not the Ministry of Defense either, then it is a classic act of aggression," Komšić said.
During the last war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3.176 people were killed in Prijedor and the surrounding towns.
About 30.000 persons of non-Serb nationality also passed through the Trnopolje, Omarska and Keraterm camps in Prijedor.
Every year in Prijedor, in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Day of White Ribbons is celebrated, in memory of the victims, civilians of non-Serb nationality.
On May 31, 1992, the crisis headquarters of Prijedor, led by the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), issued an order ordering the non-Serb population to hang white cloth on their homes.
Non-Serbs had to wear white bands on their arms. For the crimes in Prijedor, according to information from the victims' association, about 50 final judgments have been passed and sentences of about 800 years in prison have been imposed.
The city authorities in Prijedor do not allow any memorial in memory of the murdered citizens of Prijedor.
The Serbian Army paraded today through Prijedor as part of the commemoration of the Battle of Kozara in 1942 during World War II.
The parade and commemoration was held under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Srpska.
Serbian Minister of Labour, Veterans and Social Affairs, Nemanja Starović, and State Secretary in this Ministry, Zoran Antić, also took part in the parade.
The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik used the event to once again "announce" the secession of this entity from the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He also announced that the proposed law on the special register and publicity of the work of non-profit organizations, which is colloquially called the "law on foreign agents", will be reconsidered.
Among other things, he repeated that "Republika Srpska will not allow BiH to join NATO".
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