The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik announced today that he will offer the representatives of political parties from the RS at tomorrow’s meeting a new document aimed at unifying the independence of the RS within Bosnia and Herzegovina. He said that this document implies the rejection of all the acts that have been adopted since the signing of the Dayton Agreement based on the decisions of high representatives or the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which practically means a return to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1995.
“I will propose that all previous acts that are not provided for by the Constitution be rejected, regardless of how they were passed – whether by violence of high representatives, and especially judges of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Dodik told reporters in Banja Luka. He assessed that the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina “is not relevant”, because it is a “court of one party”, which “calculatingly tries to instrumentalize all the Muslim parties from Sarajevo”.
He added that his obligation as the president of the RS is to respond to the joint statement on state property, which was signed by all Bosniak and pro-Bosnian parties in the Federation, which are both the government and the opposition. Leaders of Bosniak and pro-Bosnian parliamentary parties signed a joint statement yesterday in Sarajevo, according to which state property is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
However, according to Dodik, the issue of state property was resolved by the Dayton Agreement, so the Republika Srpska belongs to everything that is on its territory.
Dodik accused the American and British embassies in BiH, which he called “scoundrels”, of coming up with a joint statement of the parties based in Sarajevo on state property, in which they refer to the succession agreement “in an attempt to deceive, to create a new legal basis for the issue of property, bypassing both the Constitution and the Dayton Agreement”.
“The biggest culprit in Bosnia and Herzegovina is Milorad Dodik, who opposes such efforts of the mediator from the Constitutional Court and the embassy of this (American ambassador Michael) Murphy, who has been here for twenty years, first as an errand, and now as someone who thinks he can decide something,” he said.
He pointed out that the issue of property is crucial and that it can only be resolved between the RS and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in such a way that what is on the territory of the RS belongs to that entity, and that the property on the territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the property of that entity.
