Schmidt said Saturday that "entity parliaments do not have the authority to derogate provisions of the Constitutional Court. The West sees such actions as separatist and a danger to Bosnia's postwar order. The law approved this month was the latest move by Bosnian Serb officials to push for more independence of Republika Srpska, a Serb-run mini-state in Bosnia that was created as part of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war.
The Bosnian Serb parliament also has demanded a new law on the Constitutional Court, reflecting ongoing difficulties in the functioning of the country's joint institutions. Lawmakers said it was a temporary measure adopted in response to the court saying it could make decisions in the absence of the tribunal's Serb judge, who had pulled out of deliberations on orders from Bosnian Serb leadership.īosnia consists of two entities, a Serb-dominated and a Bosniak-Croat one, and has a complex network of joint, multi-ethnic institutions that were designed to keep the three rival ethnic groups together. The Bosnian Serb parliament passed a law to not recognize or implement any decisions by Bosnia's multi-ethnic Constitutional Court.
The top international official in Bosnia on Saturday said he was revoking a Bosnian Serb law that suspended any decisions by the country's top court, saying it violates the 1995 peace agreement that ended a devastating 1992-95 war in the Balkan nation.Īs the high representative for Bosnia, German diplomat Christian Schmidt has the authority to change laws and impose decisions to make sure the country's politicians are working to preserve peace and promote reconciliation following the conflict that killed over 100,000 people.
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