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Dodik: "It started; there is no going back"


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As the transfer of competencies to the level of BiH is interrupted, a new phase 
begins for Republika Srpska, exercising its rights given by the BiH 
Constitution 

Source: Tanjug Thursday, December 30, 2021 | 08:22 



Foto: EPA-EFE/Stephanie Lecocq

"As the transfer of competencies to the level of BiH is interrupted, a new 
phase begins in which the Republika Srpska will show its ability to exercise 
the rights given to it by the Constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina", Serbian 
member of the Presidency of BiH, Milorad Dodik, said announcing that the Day of 
the Republika Srpska will be celebrated "very powerfully". 

"Republika Srpska is not taking anything from Bosnia-Herzegovina or the 
Federation with its efforts to return the stolen competencies. What was done by 
violence on the part of high representatives will be re-examined because it was 
not done under legitimate and legal circumstances," Dodik said on Wednesday 
night in the show "Telering" on RTRS, announcing that Republika Srpska will 
form its High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council in January. 

He pointed out that a ceremonial academy will be held on the occasion of the 
National Day, January 9, and that it will be shown that Srpska, as he stated, 
became aware of itself and its constitutional powers after 30 years. He also 
emphasized that RS adheres to what is written in the Constitution and said that 
it will never agree to the concept of a unitary Bosnia-Herzegovina. He added 
that the formation of the third entity is not a patronizing attitude toward 
Croats, but an assessment that Bosnia-Herzegovina cannot function without such 
a "tripartite" federation. 

Dodik emphasized that there will be no return to joint institutions until the 
controversial law imposed by former High Representative Valentin Inzko is 
repealed. 

"It was important to me to restore the dignity of RS and strengthen its 
self-confidence in its existence. Do people here feel that RS has strength, 
that it is not a self-service where foreigners come and take what they want 
from it. I think that I succeeded in that and stabilized and stopped the 
transfer of competencies to the level of BiH, and now we are entering a new 
phase. In that new phase, a strong Srpska will prove capable of mastering the 
constitutional rights that the BiH Constitution gives to the Republika Srpska," 
Dodik said. 

Not everyone looks at the processes that, as Dodik says, restore dignity to the 
Republika Srpska, in the same way. 

While SDS President Mirko Sarovic accuses Dodik of leading the Republika Srpska 
to isolation and conflict, adding that it will be better without Dodik, the 
Serb member of the BiH Presidency replies that "with such an SDS and Mirko 
Sarovic, the Republika Srpska will not survive". 

He reminded that he received more than 380.000 votes in the last elections and 
asked Sarovic how many votes he received and on whose behalf he speaks. 

"SDS became a satellite party thanks to Mirko Šarović, his trial, his 
unresolved role in the murder of Rista Jugović, where there are indications 
that he was also involved in that. I think that Mirko Šarović is being held for 
those reasons," said Dodik. Dodik also says that Sarovic is "a person protected 
by agencies from Sarajevo", and not from the Republika Srpska. 

"He should not be guarded, but when he comes to Banja Luka, he is being 
followed by Sarajevo police officers, not the Republika Srpska Police," said 
Dodik. Dodik announced that next year will be marked by new investments worth 
at least two billion marks, which is about one billion euros. 

He pointed out that an agreement had been reached in Russia on the construction 
of gas power plants and gas pipelines from Bijeljina to Banja Luka, and said 
that the construction of the highway from Doboj to Modrica was expected to 
continue in the coming period, as well as the construction of Buk Bijela 
Hydroelectric Power Plant.

 

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