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U.S. backs NATO membership for Bosnia, dismisses Serb opposition
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS DECEMBER 17, 2018 / 1:46 PM / UPDATED 34 MINUTES AGO
U.S. backs NATO membership for Bosnia, dismisses Serb opposition
Daria Sito-Sucic
3 MIN READ
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The United States supports Bosnia’s ambition to join NATO, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, dismissing Bosnian Serb objections and adding Washington would react strongly to any threat to the stability of the country.
Bosnia has long proclaimed integration with NATO and the European Union to be strategic goals. But the pro-Russian leader of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb region, Milorad Dodik, has called for the country to remain neutral and stay out of the U.S.-led military alliance.
“We discussed the U.S. position which is as firm as it has ever been, supporting the decision that has been made by this government to pursue membership in NATO,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said after meeting Bosnia’s three-man inter-ethnic presidency.
NATO bombed dominant separatist Serb forces in Bosnia in 1995 to help bring an end to the war there, and the United States brokered the Dayton peace deal that followed.
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U.S. backs NATO membership for Bosnia, dismisses Serb opposition
Daria Sito-Sucic
3 MIN READ
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The United States supports Bosnia’s ambition to join NATO, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, dismissing Bosnian Serb objections and adding Washington would react strongly to any threat to the stability of the country.
Bosnia has long proclaimed integration with NATO and the European Union to be strategic goals. But the pro-Russian leader of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb region, Milorad Dodik, has called for the country to remain neutral and stay out of the U.S.-led military alliance.
“We discussed the U.S. position which is as firm as it has ever been, supporting the decision that has been made by this government to pursue membership in NATO,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said after meeting Bosnia’s three-man inter-ethnic presidency.
NATO bombed dominant separatist Serb forces in Bosnia in 1995 to help bring an end to the war there, and the United States brokered the Dayton peace deal that followed.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bosnia-usa-nato/u-s-backs-nato-membership-for-bosnia-dismisses-serb-opposition-idUSKBN1OG238