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SARAJEVO, May 26 (FENA) - NATO represents the most efficient and most successful international organization in history, that is, a political-military alliance which symbolizes stability and prosperity and has guaranteed peace to all its members for seven full decades with its own collective security mechanism.
This was emphasized today by Selmo Cikotić, former minister of defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a keynote speaker of regular Association of Independent Intellectuals "Circle 99" on "Does Bosnia and Herzegovina has alternative for NATO?“
"Out of all international organizations, NATO is the only one with specific and efficient methods to deal with numerous modern international security risks," said Cikotić.
Cikotić reminded that NATO path of BiH enjoyed full support from different [political options from RS for years, and now the option in power in this BiH entity says – we do not want to join NATO and we do not want to apply MAP (Membership Action Plan).
At the same time, he emphasized it is something which is an internal issue of BiH and that there needs to be a more rational, flexible and constructive approach, in the context of stagnation regarding situation of (non)adoption of the first Annual National Plan (ANP), which needs to be sent to Brussels after activation of MAP.
"It is easy to create a problem in BiH and I do not think the power is shown by what can be stopped but by the ability to launch or do something," said Cikotić.
Asked why there is a change in views on NATO by certain political options, Cikotić reminded there are multiple commitments – legal and international ones which confirm that BiH is ready to enter NATO and that he finds that change in that view is conditioned by conviction of certain political leaders that there is a change of geopolitical relations which can go in favor of different political concepts.
President of Circle 99 Adil Kulenović said that most citizens in BiH believe that there is no alternative and that the only right option is moving towards Euro-Atlantic integration, which guarantees stability and security in BiH.
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