Balkans | Dodik announces the condition for ending the political crisis in Bosnia

The Bosnian Serb leader Dodik assured that there will be no war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that the problem is not in the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but rather in its sovereignty, and clarified the conditions for resolving the political crisis.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad DodikBy Angelina Eichhorst, Director of the European Office for External Affairs (EEAS) Bosnia and Herzegovina The government announced its demand to end the political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina after being summoned to meet with its leaders.

At the extraordinary press conference held after the meeting of the EU delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina in his office in Sarajevo, Dodik said that “everyone withdraws their controversial decisions” is the key to de-escalation, and then discussions on next steps are needed. “Nobody, including us, is discussing the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Dodik said.

Dodik pointed out that the problem lies in the sovereignty of the state and that Bosnia and Herzegovina is organized as a state consisting of two entities and three peoples, an institution recognized in the constitution. He demanded that the financial affairs of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be filled with a candidate from his party. Dodik argued that while Bosnians and Croats are fully represented in government at the state level, this is not the case for Serbs.

Dodik’s application was not accepted by the Sarajevo-based parties in the government coalition as long as Dodik continued to challenge the authority of the Constitutional Court.

Dodik stressed that there would be no war in Bosnia and Herzegovina “whatever one wants”, and said: “All laws introduced by the fictitious High Representative Christian Schmidt must be repealed and returned to the starting point”.

The Serbian leader said that there would be no progress in the case of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina without the adoption of a law on the status of three foreign judges in particular.

The press conference, in which Dodik announced the circumstances of the political crisis in the country, came after the examination of the State Agency for Investigation and Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the headquarters of the Official Gazette of Republika Srpska at the request of the State Prosecutor. office.

The Official Gazette of Republika Srpska stopped publishing the laws published by the High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt after the relevant decision of the People’s Assembly of Republika Srpska.

The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina formed a team against the Serbian leader Dodik and the director of the Official Gazette of Republika Srpska, Milos Lukic, and prepared a dossier.

Lukic was appointed director by the Republika Srpska government last week, after two of his predecessors resigned within a month of taking the job over fears of criminal prosecution.

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