The US President Donald Trump made a decision related to the Western Balkans, with which he extended the extraordinary measures that former US President George W. Bush made 16 years ago, as announced from the White House.
The decision, among other things, includes the publication of the so-called blacklist of people and organizations that are under sanctions for breaking the Dayton Peace Agreement and representing the threat to national security and interests of the US. Since the beginning of this year, the leader of SNSD and the President of the RS Milorad Dodik is included on the list as well.
For the first time in his mandate, Trump signed an executive decision that is related to the Western Balkans and extended it for another year.
On June 26, 2001, Bush issued an executive decision in which was stated that interests of the US are threatened by certain individuals and organizations in BiH, Macedonia, and Kosovo. It gives a number of legal consequences, including the blockade of their property, a ban on the entry in the US and financial transactions for Hague indictees, as well as around 150 people and organizations that are linked to indictees for war crimes, terrorist organizations etc. Washington believes that these people represent the risk for peace and the process of stabilization in the region.
Based on that provision made by Bush in 2001, a blacklist of people and organizations with whom the US government and companies are banned from cooperating and blocking assets and cash transactions in the United States was created. The list of persons covered by this decision, as well as other similar types, is published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which is operating within the US Department of Finance.
At the previously published list, among the others, are: Radovan Karadžić, Biljana Plavšić, Sonja Karadžić-Jovičević, Momčilo Krajišnik, Ljiljana Zelen-Karadžić and Aleksandar Karadžić. There are also Milovan Bjelica, Ljubomir Borovčanin, Stojan Župljanin, Duško Sikirica, Milan Simić, Senad Šahinpašić, Hasan Čengić, Bakir Alispahić, Ljubo Ćesić, Valentin Ćorić, Savo Krunić, Zoran Petrić and Naser Keljmendi…
(Source: fokus.ba)
