BANJA LUKA -- Milorad Dodik says that the Republic of Srpska does not accept the international high representative’s Bonn Powers.
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The Council for Implementing Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina met on Wednesday and extended the international high representative’s mandate indefinitely.
Several goals and conditions have already been set by the council for the Bosnian government.
The RS prime minister said that “many people are piled into the office of the high representative, especially locals from Sarajevo, who bring their political ideas and Sarajevo’s position to the OHR,” adding that the RS would no longer cooperate with any reforms coming from that institution.
He said that the agreement reached on police reform contained within the Mostar Declaration, “doesn’t impinge on the RS’s powers, or the RS police and its authority and financing,” Dodik said, adding that his party would support the police reform law within the Bosnian parliament.
“We will not accept any amendments, as the political agreement has been respected. The fact that the Democratic Action Party (SDA) will not support it, is their problem,” the RS prime minister said.
He said that the OHR’s mandate had been extended indefinitely because of the SDA’s refusal to support the Mostar Declaration.
Dodik said that Bosnia-Herzegovina should be focused on European integration, adding that by adopting the police reform law a necessary condition for signing the Stabilization and Association Agreement had been fulfilled.
The RS prime minister said that Council members in Brussels had ignored the question of Kosovo, not wishing to draw any ties between the province’s unilateral independence declaration and the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He said that the situation in Kosovo reflected on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, adding that the RS assembly had adopted a resolution demanding Bosniak and Croatian officials in the Bosnian parliament recognize the RS's existence.
Dodik said that if it was not recognized, “the RS will reconsider its next steps.”
Now surely Mr Dodik must remember that the political representatives of RS were present in Bonn and voted to give the HR greater powers.
Of course now that old Milorad is talking up RS within BiH and not his previously threatened divorce from the country, perhaps he's merely been spinning ultra-nationalists along the whole time while retaining loyalty to those who plucked him out of his obscurity to become one of the most powerful men in BiH.
(Alexander James, 29 February 2008 15:12)
So much for the Eu,s stance on democracy. Lajcak should expel the SDA and personally sack Tihic for his obstructiveness. If it were Dodik in Tihics position he would be long gone. Viva Dodik Viva..
(MRGUD, 29 February 2008 14:22)
So much for the Eu,s stance on democracy. Lajcak should expel the SDA and personally sack Tihic for his obstructiveness. If it were Dodik in Tihics position he would be long gone. Viva Dodik Viva..
(MRGUD, 29 February 2008 14:22)
Now surely Mr Dodik must remember that the political representatives of RS were present in Bonn and voted to give the HR greater powers.
Of course now that old Milorad is talking up RS within BiH and not his previously threatened divorce from the country, perhaps he's merely been spinning ultra-nationalists along the whole time while retaining loyalty to those who plucked him out of his obscurity to become one of the most powerful men in BiH.
(Alexander James, 29 February 2008 15:12)
Now surely Mr Dodik must remember that the political representatives of RS were present in Bonn and voted to give the HR greater powers.
Of course now that old Milorad is talking up RS within BiH and not his previously threatened divorce from the country, perhaps he's merely been spinning ultra-nationalists along the whole time while retaining loyalty to those who plucked him out of his obscurity to become one of the most powerful men in BiH.
(Alexander James, 29 February 2008 15:12)
So much for the Eu,s stance on democracy. Lajcak should expel the SDA and personally sack Tihic for his obstructiveness. If it were Dodik in Tihics position he would be long gone. Viva Dodik Viva..
(MRGUD, 29 February 2008 14:22)