The US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) announced today that the conclusions adopted at the All-Serbian Assembly in Belgrade represent an attack on the Dayton Peace Agreement and state institutions of BiH.
"The conclusions do not represent a defense of the Dayton Peace Agreement, as the authors claim, but are a deliberate attack on that agreement and the state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina," states the statement of the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
They added that the conclusions of the All-Serbian Parliament, which refer to the Dayton Peace Agreement and the independent state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, are rooted in "legal misinformation and riddled with errors."
"The public statements of the officials of the Republika Srpska (RS), especially the President of the RS Milorad Dodik and the President of the National Assembly of the RS Nenad Stevandić, about the conclusions and plans for the 'disunification' of the RS, (which is) another name for secession, represent both an attack on Dayton and on territorial integrity, sovereignty and multi-ethnic character of Bosnia and Herzegovina," the statement added.
They pointed out that the Dayton Peace Agreement and the Constitution of BiH expressly state that BiH is the successor state of the Republic of BiH with its internal structure, modified, so that it consists of two entities.
"Neither Dayton nor the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina gives the entities or any other sub-state body the right to secession, 'disassociation' or any other clumsy synonym for secession invented by RS officials," stated the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
They emphasized that the RS is not a state and that it can only exist within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"It has no legal personality outside BiH. Dodik's plans and actions endanger the peaceful, democratic and prosperous future in the Euro-Atlantic institutions that the citizens of BiH, including the residents of the RS, want and deserve," concluded the American embassy.
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