The Bosnian Serb entity's President Milorad Dodik has said that presidents, Ivo Josipovic of Croatia and Boris Tadic of Serbia have brought new optimism and new hope in the region.
Dodik said in his interview with the Belgrade-based Politika daily on Sunday that good relations between Croatia and Serbia were a precondition for the stability of the entire region, including Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Commenting on findings of a recent poll conducted by Gallup that 88 percent of people in the Bosnian Serb entity are for the secession of that part from Bosnia, Dodik said that reasons lay in decisions made by the international community's High Representatives which he said were bending the Dayton peace agreement in contravention of the international law and contrary to the will of the Republic of Srpska.
The findings can be interpreted as the response of the Serb people to the growing pressure to change te Bosnian constitution and consequently the position the Serb entity had be given by the Dayton agreement, he said.
"There is no autonomous region in the world that has decided to abolish itself. Why should the Republic of Srpska do it, then?" Dodik added.
