Bosnia's foreign policy privatized, says analyst

Political analyst Adnan Huskic said that the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH has been privatized after visiting the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, with whom the Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH Bisera Turkovic met yesterday.

At a time when Iran is facing international pressure regarding women's rights, there should be no diplomatic tact to organize this visit. As you know, BiH voted against the Resolution condemning this behavior of the regime in Tehran. I think that the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at this moment is an unnecessary additional problem. It is clear that foreign policy is privately conducted here, that Mrs. Turkovic evidently, and perhaps with the approval of her own party, conducts her own kind of foreign policy, Huskic stated.

He adds that we are less close to the EU with every step like this. It is an anti-European foreign policy. We should be surprised that the EU is still trying to make some kind of arrangement with us, lowering the criteria because we are not showing that we are ready to deal more seriously with the process of rapprochement with the EU, at least in terms of harmonizing foreign policy. And it's not just Ms. Turkovic, let s remember the meeting between Dodik and Putin and so on. It s about a privatized foreign policy of certain political actors that only harms the state, Huskic concluded.