The President of Republika Srpska stated that the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo and Ambassador Michael Murphy are behind the threats to banks in Republika Srpska, warning they would be sanctioned if they made payments to sanctioned officials of Srpska.
“The American state bodies do not view it directly but integrate it through certain documents, and Murphy is doing all this,” Dodik said.
Dodik mentioned that a number of individuals at today’s meeting of the Executive Committee of the SNSD proposed that Srpska introduce a mechanism to ban entry for U.S. President Joseph Biden, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, as well as the family of the former High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown.
“That made me smile. But, people are thinking about it. It’s not cynical, but rather a message in the style of ‘we have had enough of such behavior from you,'” Dodik explained.
He expressed satisfaction that none of the sanctioned officials have left Srpska or the SNSD or their positions, even joking among themselves about why some were sanctioned and others were not.
Following the sanctioning of his associates for organizing and celebrating the Day of Srpska – January 9th, Dodik called for everyone to come to the next year’s most massive celebration of the Day of Republika Srpska.
Source: RTRS
