BELGRADE, May 28. /TASS/. Milorad Dodik, leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats of the Republic of Srpska (one of the two constituent entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina), has warned that Bosnian Serbs may organize a referendum on whether it would be expedient to continue European integration in view of Brussels’ violation of the association agreement.
"The European Union not only tacitly approved [High Representative Christian] Schmidt’s tyranny and the violation of the principles it (the EU - TASS) had committed itself to under the Association Agreement, but official Brussels literally financed Schmidt by allocating him more than 50% of the High Representative’s office budget, enabling him to undermine the rule of law and democratic principles in Bosnia and Herzegovina," he wrote on his X page.
According to Dodik, such steps make the European Union an "accomplice of Schmidt who violated the provisions of the Stabilization and Association Agreement, and in the coming period we will try to initiate the dispute-resolution mechanism envisaged by the agreement."
"If political representatives of the other two peoples in joint institutions do not agree to this, we will ask the Serb people what they think about further EU accession. We will not allow Brussels to continue disenfranchising" the Republic of Srpska, Dodik stressed.
