Back in 1995, the United States brokered a peace accord in Bosnia and Herzegovina is now threatening to slap sanctions against the subjects that have warned for a unilateral withdrawal from state institutions or undermine the agreement, said the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Bosnia’s Serb leader Milorad Dodik has threatened secession of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the rest of the country,
“As a signing witness of the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA), the United States reiterates that moves to unilaterally withdraw from state-level institutions or otherwise destabilize the DPA will be met with appropriate action, including the consideration of sanctions”, Blinken wrote in a letter addressed the members of the tripartite Presidency of BiH, published in a Bosnian portal.
The Dayton Accord created two entities in Bosnia: The Muslim Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska.
The country is governed and administered along ethnic lines as prescribed by the agreement, but also has a central government that is often dysfunctional.
Dodik, the Serbian representative in the Presidency, has threatened to abandon state-level institutions, including here the judiciary, army, and the tax administration.
He has dismissed international appeals that such an agenda can pave the way to a new conflict in the country.
Earlier on, the US noted that there is “no constitutional way” how the Serb-predominant entity may withdraw from national institutions.
But Dodik claims that the institutions he’s threatening to leave are not part of the Constitution in DPA, but were formed by amendments.
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