Bisera Turkovic, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said today that the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, was unsuccessfully trying to divert attention from the icon he gave to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and to blame others.
She said Dodik belittled an important guest and his country.
“Instead of trying to confuse and manipulate the whole case, I want to mention that the Embassy of Ukraine in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country are asking for the return of the icon, which they claim belongs to this country’s cultural heritage. To begin with, I suggest