Speaking about the topic “Connecting the non-expansionist states of the Western Balkans”, Aleksandar Radoman points out that in the said communication he sees the hope “to emerge from this danger strengthened – that Bosnia and Herzegovina develops as a civil society, and Montenegro preserves its civil character”, defined after the referendum held in 2006.
Boban Batrićević, professor at the aforementioned Cetinje faculty, also guest-introductor at the “Circle 99” session, notes that Bosnia and Herzegovina’s relations with Montenegro have been very good in recent decades, but in the last few years they have been subject to slight deterioration.
It is not possible to maintain good-neighborly relations in the Western Balkans as long as one of the countries works against it, which, according to Batrićević, makes the current regime of Aleksandar Vučić not giving up on the project of a ‘Greater Serbia’.
– The characteristics of that process are efforts to undermine the integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is, the Montenegrin national identity in Montenegro, an independent state of which Serbia wants to make a satellite for help in positioning on the global stage. BiH and Montenegro are in an ungrateful position for all the reasons mentioned, and their civil forces are currently passive, Bartićević concludes, among other things.
Adnan Čirgić, Director of the Institute for Montenegrin Language and Linguistics, Cetinje, also a participant in the Sarajevo “Circle 99” session, points out that the links between Bosnian and Montenegrin society are numerous and one of them is a common problem – the danger of Greater Serbian nationalism.
The belief of the previous Montenegrin political elite that defining its civic character after the 2006 referendum and joining the NATO alliance would be sufficient to safeguard the country’s stability, this participant said, among other things, proved to be illusory.
Radoman’s, Batrićević’s and Čirgić’s participation in today’s session of the Sarajevo association “Krug 99” on the topic “Connecting the non-expansionist states of the Western Balkans” was technically made possible by video link.
This was Aleksandar Radoman’s second guest appearance at the sessions of this Sarajevo association of intellectuals after his previous participation in July of this year. Kosovo, which BiH has not and will not recognize. The policy of “letting the neighbor milk the cow” is not a policy of building trust and the future of BiH.
(Vijesti.ba)
