![]() He announced a special RS Parliament session for November 5, adding it should “provide answers to some challenges, instead of reducing the issue to the Democratic Action Party (SDA, Bosniak’s leading political organisation) declaration.” “That is a serious problem, and we won’t give up the Constitutional positioning of the RS,” Dodik said. The OHR got powers to act when local parties were unable or unwilling to act themselves and to remove from office public officials who disrespect legal commitments or the Dayton Agreement.Īccording to Dodik, the history would remember that the High Representatives “tried to shape the political system by cheating and were doing that until RS strongly refused that approach and their model,” he added.ĭodik said “they now try to legalise that,” saying that “all that has been taken away (from RS jurisdiction) and passed onto the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina do not exist in its Constitution.” The Peace Implementation Council (PIC comprising countries and agencies supporting the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina) agreed in December 1997 in the meeting in Bonn to grant further powers to the OHR, in order to prevent nationalist politicians to delay or obstruct the implementation of the Dayton Agreement. “Some will ask why now? Because it should not be understood that we accepted the violation of the Dayton Agreement (the peace deal that ended the Bosnian 1992-1995 war in December 1995, signed in the US city of Dayton), Dodik said. Dodik added that all decisions the High Representatives and the OHR office brought based on Bonn Powers should be annulled. ![]()
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