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Serbs Protest Vice President Biden’s Visit To Bosnia
By UPI
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Groups of Bosnian Serbs yesterday demonstrated against U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, witnesses said.
In Banja Luka, the capital of the Serb-run entity in northwestern Bosnia, several dozen Bosnian Serbs carried banners reading, “Biden go home” and “Vladimir Putin is watching you.”
Mr. Biden arrived in Sarajevo earlier yesterday on a one-day visit for talks with the Bosnian leadership, composed of Bosnia’s Muslims, Serbs and Croats, the Sarajevo-x.com Web site said.
In Belgrade, the next stop of Mr. Biden’s three-day tour of the Balkans, a small group of Serbian opposition parties yesterday gathered outside the Russian Czar restaurant in the capital’s main shopping pedestrian area to protest the U.S. leader’s visit scheduled for today.
Slobodan Samardzic, a leader of the Serbian Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, told supporters Mr. Biden is coming to Belgrade to ask Serbia to join NATO.
Mr. Samardzic, one of many Serbs who oppose NATO’s membership, said it would be Serbia’s worst humiliation in light of the U.S.-led NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 when the air raids forced Serbian police and military troops out of Kosovo, Belgrade’s B92 Web site said.
Tomorrow, Mr. Biden is to visit Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008.
In Banja Luka, the capital of the Serb-run entity in northwestern Bosnia, several dozen Bosnian Serbs carried banners reading, “Biden go home” and “Vladimir Putin is watching you.”
Mr. Biden arrived in Sarajevo earlier yesterday on a one-day visit for talks with the Bosnian leadership, composed of Bosnia’s Muslims, Serbs and Croats, the Sarajevo-x.com Web site said.
In Belgrade, the next stop of Mr. Biden’s three-day tour of the Balkans, a small group of Serbian opposition parties yesterday gathered outside the Russian Czar restaurant in the capital’s main shopping pedestrian area to protest the U.S. leader’s visit scheduled for today.
Slobodan Samardzic, a leader of the Serbian Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, told supporters Mr. Biden is coming to Belgrade to ask Serbia to join NATO.
Mr. Samardzic, one of many Serbs who oppose NATO’s membership, said it would be Serbia’s worst humiliation in light of the U.S.-led NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 when the air raids forced Serbian police and military troops out of Kosovo, Belgrade’s B92 Web site said.
Tomorrow, Mr. Biden is to visit Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008.
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