Sarajevo and Belgrade are expected to improve bilateral relations as a result the recent Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) elections at which the 'war rhetoric' leader Haris Silajdzic was defeated by the more moderate Bakir Izetbegovic, it was said Monday at a Belgrade meeting on the current developments in the region after the BiH elections, informs GHN referring to TANJUG.
Chairman of the Serbian parliament Committee for Foreign Affairs Dragoljub Micunovic said that the outcome of the BiH general elections, held on October 6, suits Serbia's "positive expectations."
He said that Milorad Dodik, by winning the majority of votes for the office of Republika Srpska (RS) president, further strengthened his political position.
Co-President of the NGO Igman Initiative Aleksandar Popov welcomed Silajdzic's leaving the BiH political scene by saying that his "rhetoric of war questioned the Bosnia-Herzegovina integrity."
According to him, Izetbegovic, a member of the Party of Democratic Action who will be the Bosniak member of the BiH presidency, already sent "very good messages to the EU and to Serbia."
Popov believes that Dodik's victory proved his undisputable authority in RS.
Predrag Simic, a professor at the Belgrade's Faculty of Political Sciences, said that the elections created "new space for the Belgrade-Banja Luka relations," as well as for the overall relations between Serbia and BiH.
Until assuming the office of RS president, Dodik used to be the entity's prime minister.
Beside Izetbegovic, who won the majority of the Bosniak votes, the Serb representative in the BiH Presidency will be Nebojsa Radmanovic while the Croat member will be Zeljko Komsic.
