US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the President of Republika Srpska is undermining the Dayton Agreement and violating the Constitution of BiH by his actions.
“By signing the law denying the powers of the High Representative, the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik violates the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and undermines the Dayton Agreement,” Blinken wrote on Twitter.
He pointed out that the USA supports the Office of the High Representative (OHR), BiH and its sovereignty, territorial integrity and multi-ethnic character.
Blinken wrote on Twitter after Dodik’s decision to sign the decree announcing the entry into force of the law prohibiting the publication of the High Representative’s decisions in the Official Gazette of the RS.
Last Saturday, Schmidt annulled the laws adopted by the RS National Assembly, according to which that BiH entity will not apply the decisions of the Constitutional Court of BiH, as well as the high representative in BiH.
Schmidt also imposed changes to the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which treat non-implementation of the High Representative’s decisions as a criminal offense, for which prison sentences are provided, as well as dismissal from office.
