Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik has sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, urging the UN chief to reject a “special report” filed by High Representative Valentin Inzko this week. The HR’s report includes a “determination” that the planned referendum in the RS constitutes a violation of the Dayton Accords.
“For reasons explained in detail in the RS’s Response, the High Representative lacks the legal authority to promulgate such a determination, and his legal reasoning and facts asserted in reaching his determination are wholly without merit.
According to the RS press agency, “Dodik said that the report of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a continuation of long-standing pattern of suppressing disagreements with the self-proclaimed authority of the High Representative in order to unilaterally impose laws, amend the constitutions and punish those who disagree with his actions through his decisions.”
The full text of the RS Government’s response can be found here in English, and here in Serbian.
