KOVAČEVIĆ: USAID HAVING INVESTED NEARLY A BILLION BAM IN BiH PROVES HOW STRONG BLOW AGAINST SRPSKA WAS

BANJA LUKA, FEBRUARY 9 /SRNA/ - The fact that USAID has invested nearly one billion BAM in BiH in the last four years illustrates in the best way how strong and powerful the attack on Republika Srpska was, pointed out Radovan Kovačević, the deputy of the Serb People Caucus in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly.

Although the media announced that the largest part of that money was paid to organisations and media in the Federation of BiH, Kovačević stated, the fact remains that their involvement was directed primarily towards Republika Srpska and its authorities. "This is also proven by the fact that, in that period, very frequent texts that, instead of the journalist's signature, had sentences such as 'the creation of this text was supported by the US Agency for International Development /USAID/ or 'the publication of this text was partly financed by a grant from the US Foreign Affairs Offices, almost as a rule aimed at discrediting and falsely representing Republika Srpska as a destabilizing factor in BiH and the region," Kovačević posted on X social network. He pointed out that the target of such propaganda texts mostly was Republika Srpska and Milorad Dodik, sometimes Dragan Čović. "Propaganda and lies, threats, indictments and court processes, sanctions, pressure on other governments and international and financial organisations. These were all tools the former US administration used against little Republika Srpska. Srpska still survived. And it will survive," Kovačević said.