Bosnia and Herzegovina is a complex country, and it has no identity without its two entities and three peoples, the newly elected Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency Milorad Dodik told Serbian media.

The Serb leader, who is now outgoing President of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska (RS), said he met the President of Serbia even before the other two members of Bosnia's presidency, and that they discussed the implementation of results of the recently held general election in Bosnia.

“That is normal, we talked dozen times over the phone in the meantime, we have a good communication and would like to improve the relations,” Dodik told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

Dodik finds it logical to continue the policy of RS entity in the state Presidency and that he is going to ask to have the RS flag exposed during the Presidency sessions. That is a minimum and is not of a symbolic character.

Asked why it is important to him to be the Serb member in the state Presidency, he said this had no significance to him but was politically important for the position of RS entity.

“We have no luxury to allow any adventurism, that's why it is important to have a united structure of Serbs in the joint institutions,” he underlined.

According to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina its two entities, Republika Srpska and Federation (FBiH) as well as its three constituent peoples – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats, are to be equally represented in the state institutions. Dodik, who ran in the recent general election as the Serb member from RS will be accompanied in the Presidency by two other members, who were elected in the Federation by votes of this entity's two dominant groups – the Bosniaks and the Croats.

The new Serb member said he would not go to the Presidency to make further divisions but that he would not allow degrading of RS.

“We don't want anything else but what belongs to us and we will take care of the national interests,” Dodik underlined.

“Republika Srpska is my priority and I will try to create a possible Bosnia and Herzegovina. And impossible Bosnia and Herzegovina, the way it is now, was made a monster by high representatives who violated international laws. I don't rule out a possibility of Republika Srpska, as a consequence of the failure of constitutional Bosnia and Herzegovina, be independent,” he added.

The international high representatives were appointed in Bosnia to oversee the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords which ended the 1992-95 armed conflict in the country. Dodik has been advocating the closure of the Office of the High Representative (OHR), saying that its officials were taking the side of Bosniaks and breaching in this way the international law and the DPA.