TOMORROW MARKS 34TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROCLAMATION OF SRPSKA'S FIRST CONSTITUTION

PALE, FEBRUARY 27 /SRNA/ - The first Constitution of Republika Srpska, one of the most important constitutive acts that formed the basis for the creation of Republika Srpska, was proclaimed on February 28, 1992.

The first step taken by Serb members of parliament in Sarajevo, and their historic decision to establish the Assembly of the Serb People of BiH, marked the creation of Republika Srpska. The Assembly of the Serb People of BiH was established on October 24, 1991, after Serb MPs were outvoted in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of BiH on October 14. The Assembly called a plebiscite on whether the Serb people should remain in the common state of Yugoslavia, in which Serbs in BiH voted almost unanimously in favor of that option. Muslims and Croats did not recognize the results of the plebiscite, after which all Serb MPs from all parties in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of BiH continued their work in the Assembly of the Serb People of BiH and began adopting acts that constituted Republika Srpska. Of around ten constitutive acts that form the constitutional and legal basis for the creation of Republika Srpska, two are the most significant - the Declaration on the Proclamation of Republika Srpska and the Constitution of Republika Srpska. The Assembly of the Serbian People of BiH adopted the Declaration on January 9 and the Constitution on February 28, 1992.