Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on Sunday accused Bosnian parties of attempting to dominate Serbs and Croats in the process of forming the state-level Council of Ministers, adding that this way why an agreement on a new government could not be reached.
Governments had been formed in much more difficult conditions because the principle of two entities and three peoples had been respected, but today politicians from Sarajevo are trying to change the way of forming joint bodies, Dodik said.
He told reporters in Banja Luka that Serbs were entitled to four seats in the state-level government. According to him, Croats are entitled to the position of the chairman of the Bosnian Council of Ministers.
Encouraged by the US administration and the European Union, the leaders of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH), the Social Democratic Party (SDP BiH) and the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Dragan Covic, Zlatko Lagumdzija and Sulejman Tihic respectively, held two meetings in the past ten days to talk about speeding up the process of forming a new government. The participants in the talks expressed reasonable optimism about an agreement on forming the new council of Ministers.
