“Whenever these powers are discussed, we must be ready to oppose them until the end,” the Republic of Srpska (RS) prime minister said after a trip to Brussels.

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.”