Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said today that an unofficial document from Germany and France, proposing sanctions against the entity and its leadership, will deepen the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
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"Instead of focusing energy and will on a realistic assessment of the situation, causes and consequences, the devastation of the already fragile democratic capacity by international factors, Germany and France took a shortcut and force. Neither has historically produced results in BiH," Dodik wrote on the social network X.
The so-called "non-paper", sent to European Union members by France and Germany, calls for the isolation of the RS leadership, as well as the introduction of sanctions - financial on this BiH entity and political on its highest officials.
"This 'non-paper' is a deepening of the crisis, a waste of time and money, and another adventurous approach to BiH," Dodik said.
According to media reports, the German and French document states that the constitutional crisis in BiH is "the most difficult challenge to the sovereignty, unity, and functional and territorial integrity of BiH in the last 30 years, since the signing of the Dayton Agreement."
It added that the actions and legal processes initiated within Republika Srpska after the first-instance verdict against its President Milorad Dodik represent "open attacks on the constitutional order of BiH".
It was stated that this refers to the adopted laws prohibiting the activities of the judicial institutions of BiH and the Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on the territory of Republika Srpska, the adoption of the draft of the new constitution of that entity, and the adoption of the Law on the Protection of the Constitutional Order of Republika Srpska and the so-called Law on Foreign Agents.
Dodik said he was certain that "if BiH were to pay comprehensive attention to the interests of that country, and not to its internal political needs... a solution would be found in discussions with domestic political representatives."
He stated that the "non-paper" shows that in the thirty years that have passed since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, leading EU countries have learned almost nothing about BiH.
Dodik assessed that "wrong conclusions were drawn from wrong assumptions, and the measures to 'overcome' the crisis in BiH could not have been anything other than wrong."
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