Vuciq urges Dodik to return to institutions

Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, has asked Serbian member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency, Milorad Dodik, and all Serbian political forces of Republika Srpska to participate in the work of state institutions.

According to a communique from Vuciqi's cabinet, the meeting that took place in Belgrade is the first since the US administration placed Dodik on an expanded list of corruption sanctions at the beginning of the year.

As it has become known by the presidency of Serbia, Vucic has said it does not require Dodik and Serbian political leaders to agree to anything or vote for anything.

On the contrary, my request is that the table where the RS representatives should sit should not be empty and that they fight for the interests of Serb subjects and people in the best possible way”, Vuciq said, according to the statement.

He estimated that US sanctions against Dodik and other Republika Srpska officials “are a terrible precedent”, which “could bring catastrophic consequences for developing relations between the three peoples and two entities in BiH and beyond, across the region”.

According to a statement by the Serbian presidency, Dodik praised that “against Republika Srpska and the Serb people in BiH is under way an unprecedented political and media campaign, not only in Sarajevo, but also in numerous Western centres of power”.

So he said, it is almost impossible for the Serbian people to fight for justice and consistent implementation of the Dayton Agreement because of unilateral and unilateral approach, as he said, primarily in the United States of America.

Republika Srpska's parties, led by the ruling SNSD, are boycotting the work of Bosnia and Herzegovina institutions after former High Representative Valentin Inzko independent of the Criminal Code and preventing the denial of genocide in Srebrenica