At the invitation of Milorad Dodik, a meeting was held in the presidential palace of the RS, which was attended by SNSD’s coalition partners, as well as SDS. The rest of the opposition did not respond to Dodik’s call. And the meeting is actually a response to the signing of a joint statement by pro-Bosnian parties regarding state property. Those gathered at the meeting agreed: they will not, they say, participate in any discussion about property that would be conducted in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, because that would practically mean that they recognize that Bosnia and Herzegovina is the owner of that property. And that’s not all, they also announced a series of measures leading to secession.
The meeting in Banja Luka and the unified position of Serbian political parties on state property. A joint statement is also ready, the signing of which is already announced for Monday. “We are under attack. The ultimatum that came from Sarajevo is very serious”, says Dodik after the meeting. The first measure, he says, is the withdrawal of Serbian judges from the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and some more have been announced.
“Today we agreed to form a special service within the Ministry of Internal Affairs to deal with the entity border and border surveillance. We agreed that we will make a decision to find money in the budget for the salaries of people who work in some illegal bodies,” said Dodik.
And in the aforementioned statement, it is stated, among other things, that the RS obliges all its representatives in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina to suspend decision-making, until the Government of the RS and the competent committees of the NSRS give their consent. Support also comes from the opposition SDS, as well as other parties.
“SDS and I are personally in opposition to the government on many issues, but we will never be in opposition to RS. In this context, we will act as the presidency of SDS and consider this document and decide on everything that we will constructively propose,” said SDS president Milan Miličević.
“We believe that it is very important that other political parties from the RS join in this initiative that we discussed and supported today,” said SP President Petar Đokić.
The participants of the meeting say that the parties from the Federation of BiH made an action and that it must be answered.
“We agreed that if all this does not bear fruit, at a certain moment when we evaluate it, we will offer the Federation an agreement on disassociation, because obviously this is not how it works,” said Dodik.
Dodik said that the already mentioned statement will be sent to the other parties that did not participate in today’s meeting, and that the signing is already scheduled for Monday in the NSRS, and that a special session of the parliament should be held at the end of next week, where a decision to withdraw, as he says, Serbian judges from the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
