Interview Exclusive ACADEMIC VLADIMIR KOSTIĆ PRESIDENT OF THE SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS - SANU
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espite the folks at SANU saying that they’ve “gone hoarse” attempting to explain the backstory to the “Memorandum case”, that document - often cited as a key reference to the “Greater Serbia” policy - remains a source of inspiration for political debate today almost four decades after it first appeared. The “Memorandum Case” recently received a new twist, with Sarajevo politicians alleging that, apart from the original 1986 document, there is a new “Memorandum 2”, which provides a more detailed elaboration of Serbia’s secret political plans in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Speaking in this interview for CorD Magazine, SANU President Vladimir Kostić rejects the allegations of Bosnia’s chief of diplomacy. He considers “intensive cultural, scientific, political and economic links with Republika Srpska”, alongside sincere work on improving relations with B-H, an obligatory matter and not choice. You are entering into the major project of reconstructing SANU Palace in Knez Mihailova Street. How will that great edifice look two years from now,
Memorandum II Is A Plain Lie
How many embittered criticisms of the Memorandum I’ve heard from people (not rarely foreigners) who would later admit timidly that they hadn’t read it or had merely glanced over it. That memorandum was cast over SANU like an opaque shroud, so for a long time, unforgivably long, it wasn’t possible to see what was actually happening under that shroud… In short, Memorandum 2 is a plain lie, a fabrication or… But let me avoid approaching the realm of conspiracy theories, which to me, irrevocably intoxicated by our reality, seem probable – it is a lie, but not one without a plan and evil intentions ~ Vladimir Kostić 10
May
