The international High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, said on Thursday that the international community would most probably oppose a referendum in the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska (RS), to review the establishment of the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the State Prosecutor's Office, while at the same time RS President Milorad Dodik denied that the referendum would lead to the entity's secession.
"As far as the referendum is concerned, there are no intentions for secession, it's just a response to the question that was imposed outside the Constitution and the Dayton Agreement. Those institutions are directed solely against the interests of Republika Srpska," Dodik told Bosnian Serb media.
Dodik said he wanted to hear the opinion of the entity's citizens on decisions imposed by the High Representative, adding that he expected that the international community would not react to the organising of the referendum. "There's no need for it. The Court and the Prosecutor's Office should change the way they work."
Inzko rejected the possibility of lower-level authorities subverting state institutions.
A municipality or an entity cannot change or subvert state institutions. That's out of the questions, Inzko said when asked by the press to comment on the decision by the Republika Srpska parliament to call a referendum on "the illegal establishment of the State Court and the State Prosecutor's Office".
