Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik
announced today that he will meet with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, and
Turkish President Redzep Tayyip Erdogan in the second half of
February.
Speaking to reporters after talks today in Banja Luka with
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, Dodik -- who is the
president of Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity of
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- added that Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orban will visit Republika Srpska in early March.
Quoted by Serbian media, Dodik said that Orban will be given
on that occasion the high honor bestowed on him on January 9 on
the National Day of Republika Srpska.
Dodik, who is harshly criticized by the international
community for his open and growing secessionist aspirations,
maintains close relations with Putin and Lukashenko, for whom he
makes no secret of his esteem and admiration and with whom he
fully shares stances regarding the armed conflict in Ukraine.
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