The declaration on the closure of the OHR after the Bosniak veto goes to the Constitutional Court of RS – Region

On May 26, the National Assembly of the RS adopted a Declaration calling for the end of the position of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and closed the OHR, and then the Bosniak Club in the RS People’s Council launched a veto, considering that the Declaration collapses the Dayton Peace Agreement.

“Annex 10 of the Dayton Peace Agreement clearly stipulates that the OHR is a Dayton category. As long as Dayton exists, there is also a high representative, unless the three constituent nations agree otherwise. Therefore, the high representative remains a Dayton category as long as Dayton lives,” Alija Tabaković, president of the Club of Delegates of the Bosniak People in the RS People’s Council, told reporters in Banja Luka.

The chairwoman of the RS People’s Council and one of the three Bosniak delegates who voted against, Srebrenko Golić, assessed that the practice of abusing this mechanism continued, and that the instructions for this, as she said, came from political Sarajevo.

“So far, the Constitutional Court of the RS has considered a total of four declarations and four resolutions. It rejected all of them, because they do not harm the vital national interests of any of the constituent nations,” she stated.

Golić believes that the mandate of the OHR in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be ended as soon as possible, adding that “as long as the OHR operates, there will be fewer agreements between local political representatives.”

Every act passed by the National Assembly of the RS must also be confirmed by the Council of the Peoples of the RS, in which any of the clubs of delegates of the three constituent nations and the “Others” can initiate a mechanism to protect the vital national interest.

When the veto is initiated, it goes to the Joint Commission for reconciliation, and if there is no agreement there, the final decision is made by the Constitutional Court of the RS.