Emrić: Prevent Dodik's arrogant and unreasonable political rampage that threatens regional peace, stability, and security

(Patria) - During his address at a special session of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, the president of that Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity, Milorad Dodik, with very dangerous and threatening rhetoric, proposing unlawful conclusions and inciting deputies to adopt illegal and unconstitutional acts, has directly attacked the constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thus raising reasonable suspicion that he has committed a criminal offense under Article 156 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Attack on the Constitutional Order," says Jasmin Emrić, a member of the BiH Parliament.

"In his inciting address to the deputies of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, aimed at attacking the constitutional order, overthrowing state institutions, and destroying the electoral system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dodik is directly undermining regional peace, stability, and security by calling on the Republic of Serbia to unilaterally declare that it no longer stands behind the Dayton Agreement.

Given that Dodik, in his misleading manner, stated that Serbia is the country that guarantees the Dayton Agreement, which is a completely false claim, I call on him to review the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to which the then-SFR Yugoslavia was also a signatory.
The Republic of Serbia, as the legal successor of the SFR Yugoslavia, is obligated to respect the sovereign equality of the signatory parties and to fully adhere to and fulfill its obligations as established by the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and all its annexes.

Dodik and all the protagonists of his secessionist policy must finally learn that the signatories of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, known as the Dayton Peace Agreement, are not peoples, as he maliciously interprets it, but the then-states: the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, and the SFR Yugoslavia.

In this regard, his unfounded and false assertion that "Bosniaks have violated the Dayton Agreement" is a very dangerous and deliberate construction aimed at accusing Bosniaks and imposing non-existent guilt upon them, all to justify the illegal and unconstitutional activities he and his supporters are carrying out in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, undermining and destroying the electoral and constitutional system of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

By proposing that the declaration of the "Easter Assembly," agreed upon between Serbia and Republika Srpska, whatever that may mean, declare "that Bosniaks have violated the Dayton Agreement," Milorad Dodik is actually calling for a unilateral violation of Article 1 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which stipulates that the signatory parties to this peace agreement will fully respect each other's sovereign equality, resolve disputes by peaceful means, and refrain from any actions through threat or use of force, or in any other way, against the territorial integrity or political independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina or any other state.

Given this announced concrete and direct anti-Dayton activity, I call on the witness states of the Dayton Peace Agreement to warn the Republic of Serbia about the unacceptability of violating the political independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to undertake concrete actions to prevent Dodik's arrogant and unreasonable political rampage that threatens regional peace, stability, and security.

Considering all the activities organized for the 11th and 12th special sessions of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska to prevent the application, implementation, and execution of the decision of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, I call on the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina to, based on Article 203a.

"Non-execution of Decisions of the High Representative" of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, act urgently in accordance with its competencies, as there is an obvious reasonable suspicion that the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, in collusion with other officials of that entity, is not respecting and is preventing the implementation of the Decision enacting the Law on Amendments to the Election Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, adopted by High Representative Christian Schmidt on March 26, 2024, according to the reaction of Jasmin Emrić, NES MP in the BiH Parliament.