The Russian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) announced today that the verdict of the Court of BiH against the President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik is "illegal" because Christian Schmidt, due to the veto of Russia and China on his appointment to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, is not a high international representative in BiH.
They stated that they had analyzed the complete first-instance verdict of the Court of BiH, which sentenced Dodik to one year in prison and a six-year ban on political activity for failing to implement the High Representative's decisions, assessing that the verdict is "a banal repetition of pseudo-legal Anglo-Saxon theses, which the so-called legitimists use to convince themselves that Christian Schmidt is the High Representative in BiH."
The Russian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina stated that Schmidt "is not a legal High Representative", or rather, as they pointed out, he is an "impostor".
They added that their position is "principled, regardless of which person it is" and that they would make a similar statement if, instead of Dodik, it were any other person, Bosniak, Serb or Croat, who would be convicted on this basis by the Court of BiH.
The Russian Embassy stated that "it is regrettable that the Court of BiH, which should be the standard of objective and impartial judicial proceedings, has allowed itself to be drawn into Anglo-Saxon provocations, which have only one goal - to divide the peoples of BiH."
"If the Frankenstein of war and conflict reappears here, it will be solely the fault of Western instigators and provocateurs," they concluded in a statement.
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