“Lawyer Goran Petronijević assessed that Serbia and Croatia should activate their authorities as guarantors of the Dayton Agreement, considering that the illegal and illegitimate High Representative Christian Schmidt executed a coup in BiH, usurping legislative powers that do not belong to him and changing the Criminal Code of BiH.
Petronijević stated that Schmidt doesn’t hold a legislative role and has taken on legislative authority, altering the Criminal Code and decreeing that anyone who refuses to obey his orders will face imprisonment from six months to five years.
Pursuant to this article, they’re pursuing the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik. It’s a mockery of international and domestic law – Petronijević stated on TV Prva.
Regarding the purpose of these actions, Petronijević pointed out that the international community aims to remove Dodik from power to resolve the resistance issue of Republika Srpska to all international requests directed towards BiH, primarily regarding BiH’s NATO accession and other matters.
Therefore, by removing Dodik from power, they anticipate obtaining someone who would consent in Republika Srpska to all those activities they’ve opposed so far. This leads to NATO accession and territorial seizure of Srpska, not possessions but territory, because possessions mean territory – stated Petronijević, who is also the president of the NGO Center for the Restoration of International Law.
He emphasized that Serbia and Croatia must react to this.
As guarantors of the Dayton Agreement, Serbia, as the legal successor of the former SFR Yugoslavia, and Croatia. Hence, they need to activate the powers originally granted to Serbia and Croatia in terms of preserving the Dayton Agreement – Petronijević said.
He indicated that the goal of the legal proceedings against the President of Republika Srpska in the Court of BiH for not adhering to Schmidt’s decisions to ban Dodik from political involvement is entirely baseless.
Petronijević stated that the illegally appointed High Representative comes to BiH, assumes powers that don’t belong to him, adding that no word on the legislative role of the High Representative can be found in the Bonn powers, the Dayton Agreement, or the Constitution of BiH.
He pointed out that this whole problem starts with the illegal and illegitimate High Representative, who wasn’t appointed according to the provisions of the Dayton Agreement.
Petronijević reminded that the High Representative is proposed by the Peace Implementation Council (PIC), verified by the UN Security Council, which appoints them through a mini-resolution, and only then do they have the powers that everyone had before them.
He noted that even the PIC didn’t unanimously propose Schmidt, with Russia and another country placing reservations on it.
Petronijević recalled the sole instance when Christian Schwarz-Schilling was a High Representative without a mini-resolution but through written correspondence among all PIC members and UN Security Council members consenting to it, which then replaced the mini-resolution.
Former diplomat Zoran Milivojević stated that what has been done is a direct breach of the Dayton Agreement currently in effect, and BiH isn’t a sovereign state because of the PIC.
This is an attempt to forcefully breach the Dayton Agreement and produce a new status for BiH according to the interests of part of the international community – emphasized Milivojević.
He reminded that BiH was admitted to the UN based on the original Dayton Agreement, under which it operates with two entities and three constituent peoples.”
