The leader of the largest Bosniak party in BiH (SDA), Bakir Izetbegovic, said that U.S. envoy Gabriel Escobar’s statements regarding BiH’s EU integration and constitutional change do not represent the official position of the United States.
The US Special Envoy said recently that the civic concept for Bosnia and Herzegovina can be discussed only after it joins the EU and that the Dayton Peace Agreement remains the framework until then.
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Izetbegovic said that Escobar’s statements “have no basis” and that the US official is trying to “throw the hot potato into the lap of BiH politicians” and to make it seem as if they are all equally to blame.
Izetbegovic called the Dayton Agreement “a straitjacket” and said it “enabled apartheid.”
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