The spokesman of the permanent mission of Russia to the United Nations, Fyodor Stržižovski, said that “making decisions in the Constitutional Court of BiH without the participation of Serbs or any other state-forming people of BiH is a path that leads to the destruction of the Dayton structure and, what is especially dangerous, to a potential conflict.”
“Today, Russia raised the issue of the dangerous situation surrounding the Constitutional Court of BiH in the UN Security Council. Due to the provocative changes to the rules of its work, the Republika Srpska is excluded from the decision-making process. The continuation of the work of three foreign judges in the Constitutional Court is an anachronism,” said Stržižovski, Sputnik reported.
As he pointed out, “all these steps fit into the policy of Western countries to maintain the protectorate status in BiH, among other things, through the illegitimate Christian Schmidt who did not receive the approval of the UN Security Council”.
“However, we are convinced that the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have the right to decide on their own, without external control, the future vector of their country’s development based on mutual respect and seeking compromises,” said the Russian diplomat.
Let us remind you that on June 19, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina held an extraordinary session where it considered the extraordinary circumstances in which the Constitutional Court found itself due to political pressure on Vice President Zlatko M. Knežević.
Article 39 of the Rules of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina until then read: Article 39. (Mandatory postponement of the session) A session of the Constitutional Court in plenary session that is not attended by at least three judges elected by the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and at least one judge elected by the National Assembly Republika Srpska is postponed with the understanding that, in case of repetition of the same situation without justifiable reasons, the next session will be held.
This means that the scheduling and holding of plenary sessions until then could be slowed down by the fact that there is not a sufficient number of judges from one or both entities, in which case the session would be cancelled, but the next time it could be held, unless there was no reason for postponement. some other valid reason.
With these amendments to the rulebook, Article 39 has been deleted and postponement of sessions will not be possible. This is the court’s response to Dodik’s moves, which led to the fact that soon there will be no judges from the RS in the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Klix.ba reports.
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