Ilir Meta breaks Tirana, Pristina boycott to honour Putin's Balkan ally

Albanian media are treating it as a purely controversial event Ilir Meta's trip to the Jahorina Summit in Bosnia, where some Balkan leaders are expected to meet.

In fact, it is more than that, and it constitutes an extremely serious political development and obviously a political deviation of Albania's Euro-Atlantic behaviour.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a federal state run by a joint government of three ethnic and administrative structures -- that of Bosniak, Serbian and Croat.

Bosniaks and Croats are in a joint facility, while Republika Srpska is the next almost autonomous facility.

The Federal government does not have much competence in the territory, besides police, defence and diplomacy, while the presidency has less.

The country's presidency consists of three people: Milorad Dodik, Republika Srpska leader Zeljko Komsic, who is elected of Croats to represent the ethnicity in the Presidency, and Sefik Dzaferovic, representing the Bosniaks.

The last two are not a political dominant figure, while Dodik is very important, since besides representing Republika Srpska's top leader, he is also the closest, narrowest ally, nearly as far as Slobodan Milosevic, official Moscow and Vladimir Putin's Balkan ally.

Moscow has resolved the bag for Dodik and finances special police, oil and gas and other entities, which keep an anti-Western and anti political project standing. - NATO in the region.

Milorad Dodik opposes Bosnia and Herzegovina's NATO membership.

Dodik has called the Jahorina summit. Jahorina is part of Pale City Hall, or the political deadlock of Radovan Karadzic's headquarters and Ratko Mladic during the Bosnian war.

Today part of Republika Srpska and administered by Dodik.

Jahorina's summit has been boycotted by Republika Thaci's president, with the argument that “ftas deignorative of the current chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina's leadership makes it impossible to attend and represent Kosovo at this” meeting.

After Pristina, even official Tirana, with the voice of incumbent diplomacy chief Genc Gakaj, announced the boycott.

Cakaj said that “treatment by organisers in Kosovo is unacceptable and goes against the goal of creating an atmosphere of trust, good neighbourly relations and stability

But surprisingly also in line with these decisions, Ilir Meta decided to go to Jahorina, breaking hard, demonstratedly, the position of two Albanian Chancellors to boycott the Jahorina summit.

Why did Ilir Meta make this gesture? No doubt it will have to explain, but the fact is that this action gives Milorad Dodik, Putin's closest ally and Aleksandar Vucic's political brother, a strong weapon.

That Albania's president rejects the political positions of Tirana and Pristina and supports Dodik. <

And not just indirectly but directly Ilir Meta turns into political sponsor of Vladimir Putin's ally in the region.

The Jahorina summit, organised by Dodik's presidency, in addition to Erdogan and Slovenia's president, who are Bosnia's top economic partners and have perhaps more than political reasons to go, is not providing a boost to Europeanist processes to Albania or even prestige to Albanians in the region. Then what are the geopolitical reasons that push Ilir Meta to be Dodik's guest in the Jahorina ski resort?

Sputnik, the Kremlin media for the Balkans, clearly explains this: Ilir Meta arrived in Jahorina despite the boycott of Tirana and Pristina...

It is interesting how one of Ilir Meta's ardent supporters, Berat Buzhala, who has accused Rama of being Vucic's ally.

Who in 2016 called on Ali Ahmeti to make government with Putin's other ally in the Balkans, Nikola Gruevski.../Theme/