The leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, Milorad Dodik, said he was grateful to US President Donald Trump and his associates for "correcting the great injustice" inflicted on Republika Srpska, its representatives and their families - "an injustice created by the Obama and Biden administrations."
The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has removed Dodik and Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Member Željka Cvijanović from its sanctions list. Previously sanctioned members of Dodik's family, their companies, and close associates have also been removed from the list.
"The decision to lift sanctions is not only a legal, but also a moral rehabilitation of the truth about Republika Srpska and all those who serve it honorably. Once again, it has been shown that everything that was said against us was a lie and propaganda, on which the great mess created by Kristijan Šmit was built - a mess that must now be cleaned up. I can forgive those who have gloated and believed in other people's lies these years, except for the years we lost because they believed that Republika Srpska would fall," Dodik wrote on Iks.
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