Bosnian Serb member of the state Presidency, hard-liner Milorad Dodik, said Sunday that Sarajevo “misused” regular procedures for engaging a ceremonial unit and orchestra of the military to take part in the marking of Statehood Day which he does not recognise as a holiday.
“It’s impossible to accept the fact that the ceremonial unit of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina is lined up on a day we do not approve of and at the same time to deny its participation in the ceremony on the day of Republika Srpska, Dodik declared after he found out that the unit will, after all, be lined up on Sunday.
Since he was inaugurated last week, the tripartite Presidency has not discussed the unit’s participation although it had to if there was disagreement over it, he said, noting that he already said he was against it.
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Dodik said he was told that the previous Presidency members had adopted “some kind of an operational plan” that included the decision for the unit to be there.
“I believe that this Presidency had to decide on that. But it was again ignored,” he said, accusing his two colleagues, Bosniak Sefik Dzaferovic and Bosnian Croat Zeljko Komsic of intending to “ignore the Presidency as the supreme command.”
Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot function based on the will of only one or two Presidency members as decisions there are made collectively, he said.
