Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said tonight that the latest sanctions imposed by the outgoing US administration on senior RS officials are, as he assessed, further proof of the senselessness and hypocrisy of their foreign policy.
Dodik stated that the foreign policy of the outgoing US administration is experiencing a "debacle around the world", and that the latest sanctions against officials from RS are nothing more than "a politically motivated move, a desperate attempt to inflict harm, destabilize RS and impose a unitary concept of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), contrary to the will of the Serbian people".
"While American voters turn to leaders like Donald Trump, who advocate sovereignty and economic patriotism, the outgoing administration is using its last breath to impose sanctions, thus demonstrating its powerlessness once again. The world will remember them only badly," he wrote on the social network X.
He stressed that RS "will not give up on its principles and will not kneel before injustice," adding that RS's policy, "based on sovereignty, Christian values and the right of every people to decide for themselves, has proven to be correct."
"Friends of Republika Srpska throughout Europe and the world recognize our courage and vision. We say to the outgoing administration: Your time has passed," Dodik said.
He announced that starting Monday, all banks in the RS will have to open accounts for all persons on whom the US has imposed sanctions.
The entire political leadership of the RS is under American sanctions, as are the highest RS officials in the joint institutions of BiH.
Banks in the RS have closed their accounts, as well as those of companies on the American "blacklist", so that they themselves would not be subject to sanctions.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury (US) today published a new list of individuals from the Republic of Serbia who have been sanctioned.
Some of them were blacklisted because they participated in organizing the celebration of RS Day, which the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional, and others because, as stated, they form a "financial support network for the Dodik family."
The blacklist includes, among others, the President of the Constitutional Court of RS Džerard Selman, the Minister of Internal Affairs of RS Siniša Karan, the Director General of Radio Television RS (RTRS) Dijana Milanković, and Pavle Ćorović, the husband of Dodik's daughter Gorica.
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