OHR MUST BE SHUT DOWN

DERVENTA, NOVEMBER 15 /SRNA/ – SNSD leader Milorad Dodik has stated that the Office of the High Representative must disappear, because it has consistently worked to block the existence and development of Republika Srpska.

Dodik stressed that various corrupt actors have kept the OHR in BiH for 30 years in an attempt to dismantle international law and prevent the existence of Republika Srpska, but that they ultimately failed. He reminded that certain rights were taken away from Srpska, rights it will never abandon, emphasizing that Serbs in BiH are not interested in anything beyond what is defined in the Constitution: a state composed of two entities and three constituent peoples. “If Bosnia cannot return to its constitutional setting, to the constitutional order, then it does not deserve to exist. This has been our position for years. And I believe the awareness of this is now maturing,” Dodik told reporters in Derventa. After what he called a shameful political process against him as the President of Republika Srpska, based on a decision accepted by the Bosniak side which he says is not a law, Dodik believes the OHR has lost any meaning. “It no longer has any purpose. There are a few misguided people among us who think some contacts should still be maintained, but I believe this is finished. The OHR must disappear, and that is the minimum precondition for any meaningful dialogue here,” Dodik said. The second issue, he added, is a return to what is written in the Constitution—and if that is not possible, then there is no reason for Serbs to remain. “That is our position,” Dodik underlined, adding that Republika Srpska is not dismantling anything, but that others did so earlier. According to him, Srpska only seeks what was agreed upon, signed, and what explicitly exists in the constitutional framework. “When the Bosniaks began dismantling Dayton, they dismantled BiH. Now they are trying to pin this on us. We have nothing against what was agreed: two entities, three constituent peoples, as stated at the UN Security Council, international interventionism will disappear,” Dodik said, calling on the Bosniaks to engage in dialogue. If there are certain things they want to share, Dodik noted that an agreement can be reached, for example on maintaining the Armed Forces and certain other structures, but he stressed these institutions must be organized far better than they are today. “It has been shown that the judiciary and prosecution have been fully instrumentalized and created solely to prosecute Republika Srpska and Serbs, and to destroy Republika Srpska. Nothing else. And therefore they will not be able to remain as they are,” Dodik emphasized.