Dodik: Agreement on peaceful dissolution will be offered to FBiH by end of June

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Milorad Dodik, president of Serb Republic (RS, Republika Srpska, the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH), said that by the end of June, the RS will offer to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH, the Muslim-Croat entity in BiH) an agreement on peaceful dissolution, which will also contain an analytical portion regarding the endangering of the Dayton Peace Agreement.

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Dodik reminded that the RS Government decided yesterday to appoint a Working Group for drafting an agreement on peaceful dissolution and pointed out that the RS has the right to this initiative, which is based on the Constitution and the Dayton Peace Agreement.

"It is part of the continuity of obligations and we said that within 30 days we will do it, and we will," Dodik told reporters in the town of Pale last night.

Dodik stressed that by the end of June, an analysis of the collapse of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which "remains only in segments," will be produced.

"Many things are not constitutional in this country and we will say that we cannot stay in that union into which we previously brought our territory, our jurisdiction and independence. We have the right to that, regardless of what the Americans are fabricating, thinking that someone is afraid of them. They are not a harmless opponent, they know how to do all sorts of things, but that does not mean that they are right," the RS president stressed, SRNA reported.

Dodik recalled that the RS entered BiH as an independent territory that had all the characteristics of a state.

"These principles from Geneva and New York state that the Serb Republic is a factor and subject and party to the Dayton Peace Agreement. The Serb Republic was retained as a party that can, together with the FBiH, even change the Dayton Agreement, and no other structure can do that," he stated.

Dodik added that anything that could be done in BiH would require an agreement between the RS and the FBiH, whether that is to centralize or separate.

"We reckon that the FBiH will act negatively on it (the proposal), but we understand why, because they want the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH to create a decision-making parliament and an assembly, while it is (now) a collection of parliaments and not a regular parliament, and from the Council of Ministers they are trying to create a BiH government. Neither one nor the other is correct," Dodik stressed.

If someone thought that Bosnia and Herzegovina should be a serious country, Dodik pointed out, then they would not have created a parliamentary assembly.

"(The assembly) continuously holds meetings, makes conclusions, worsk deliberately to accumulate that dissatisfaction, whereas the analytical approach shows that we have been warning about it for 10 years, while no one would realistically accept it," concluded Dodik.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)