Until now, High Representatives have intervened in the constitutions of the entities, deceiving us by claiming they were aligning them with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but if anyone dares to intervene in the Constitution of BiH regarding the status of the Brčko District, it would automatically and formally terminate the validity of the Dayton Constitution and Republika Srpska would become an independent state, just as it was before Dayton, following the dissolution of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Professor of Constitutional Law and Republika Srpska’s arbitrator in the Brčko boundary dispute, Siniša Karan.
In his statement, Karan explained that Amendment One to the Constitution of BiH is the only formal change ever made to the BiH Constitution, adopted in 2009, and that it represents the direct incorporation of the Final Award on Brčko Arbitration into the Constitution of BiH. Therefore, any tampering with the issue of the District would be the most direct violation of the Constitution of BiH itself.
He recalled that throughout the years of implementing the Arbitration Award, Republika Srpska has fulfilled all its obligations.
“Raising the issue of the Brčko District is now the last means of threatening Srpska because they no longer know what to do after the global geopolitical situation has changed and after realizing that external tutelage is gone, and that only dialogue can secure the future of Dayton BiH,” Karan emphasized, responding to conclusions from the SDA, which demanded that the “Brčko District be annexed to the Federation of BiH.”
Source: RTRS
