BELGRADE: Serbia rejected on Saturday a Bosnian appeals court ruling upholding a prison sentence for Milorad Dodik, the leader of Bosnia’s ethnic Serb entity, the Republika Srpska (RS).
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the court decision undermined security in the Balkan region.
In February, a court in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, sentenced Dodik to one year behind bars for defying rulings by the international envoy overseeing Bosnia’s 1995 peace accords.
It also banned Dodik, who has not so far been arrested, from holding office for six years.
Bosnia’s appeals court said on Friday it had upheld the lower court ruling and no further appeal was allowed.
