The United States has imposed new sanctions on Milorad Dodik, a Serbian member of the tripartite presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reads in a note from the Office for the Control of Foreign Assets of the United States Department of the Treasury. The sanctions also involve Alternativna Televizija doo Banja Luka, a company controlled by Dodik, and concern some of its activities defined as “corrupt” and “the continuing threats to the stability and territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina”.
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The work of state institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been blocked since July 2021, when representatives of the Republic of Srpska refused to participate in any decision-making process because former High Representative Valentin Inzko imposed amendments to the Criminal Code that prohibit the denial of genocide and the glorification of war criminals. Precisely in this context, the Serbian exponent of the Bosnian presidency, Milorad Dodik, announced a progressive separation of the Republic of Srpska from the central institutions.
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Last December Dodik in an interview published by the Serbian newspaper “Politika” commented on the threats of sanctions and withdrawal of investments by the US and Germany if the Srpska Republic continued to pursue a separatist policy with respect to the central Bosnian institutions: ” Perhaps someone – he said – will try to make fun of what I am about to say, but even the Republic of Srpska is not without (the possibility) of countermeasures. If Germany imposes sanctions, we will react. I am not blind to not knowing what the America and Germany. But my message is: you have exaggerated. You have done everything to make us hate Bosnia and Herzegovina and never make us love it “.
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Dodik then added that the Srpska Republic “has its friends” who have “invested in the entity so far”, reiterating his opposition to the figure of the High Representative of the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to the appointment for this post of the German Christian Schmidt At the end of August. According to Dodik, the United Kingdom and the European Union “attack Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for being authoritarian leaders”, and then “send Schmidt to Bosnia and Herzegovina without a UN Security Council decision. “.
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For Dodik, “the Constitution does not establish that Bosnia and Herzegovina is responsible for the defense, the tax system, the judiciary. We have recorded everything and we have set to work, and the goal can be expressed in an easily understandable message: we want nothing else Bosnia Herzegovina than that provided for by the Constitution (sanctioned by the Agreements) of Dayton “. The Republic of Srpska, Dodik said, will pass laws that will confirm that the entity owns properties on its territory. The “re-established” Supreme Council of the Judiciary in the entity, moreover, according to the Serbian exponent will soon appoint judges and prosecutors of the Republic of Srpska. “The seizures of our skills are events from the past that we have ‘swallowed’ very hard,” said Dodik.
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