The President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik expressed today the hope that with the arrival of the new American administration led by the Republicans, the sanctions imposed on him and other top officials of the RS will be lifted.
"Donald Trump did win, but he has not yet taken over the management system. However, when that happens, new conditions are created. We do not ask that his administration cheer for us, but we ask that the international law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country that failed the project, be respected. brought to that limit precisely because of the policy of (outgoing US President Joseph) Biden," Dodik told reporters in Banja Luka.
He labeled the Biden administration and the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina as destroyers of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dodik reminded that the first American sanctions were imposed on him two days before the first inauguration of Donald Trump, in January 2017.
"Two days before the inauguration of Trump, in the first mandate, to which I was invited to come, I received sanctions from the Democrats. In four years, Trump's authorities did not manage to remove the sanctions because there were people in the administration who could not change," he said. is he.
He added that he now hopes that his sanctions will be lifted.
Speaking about the US ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Michael Murphy, Dodik said that his role is only to maintain the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which judges him as the president of Republika Srpska.
"Michael Murphy must leave, only then will RS be able to rehabilitate relations with America," he said.
In addition to Dodik, the American blacklist includes, among others, his son and daughter, Igor and Gorica, Serbian member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović, Prime Minister Radovan Višković, Speaker of the National Assembly of the RS Nenad Stevandić and several ministers in the Government of the RS.
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