The Dayton peace treaty is seriously being violated by foreign ambassadors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb leader and member of the state tripartite Presidency Milorad Dodik told local media.

Those ambassadors, Dodik said, are members of the “self-proclaimed” Peace Implementation Council, an international body charged with implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and established a complex power-sharing administration system in the country.

The council's steering board that is composed of foreign ambassadors serving in Bosnia meets occasionally to assess the situation in the country.

According to Dodik, their conclusions are no longer taken for serious and “they know it.”

Milorad Dodik. who is the leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the strongest party in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska, entered the state tripartite Presidency as a Serb member following the October 7 election.

Speaking for the RS public broadcaster, RTRS, he said Republika Srpska entity, which elected him to the Presidency, joined the talks on future of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a party in those talks but foreign envoys in Bosnia tried to dismiss that and impose Bosnia as a state.

Dodik was often critical of the High Representatives in Bosnia, who were appointed by the international community to oversee the civilian implementation of the Dayton agreement. He accused them of imposing solutions in Bosnia, which he sees as a state-union and not as a state.

Bosnia consists of two semi-autonomous entities, RS which is dominated by the Serbs and the Federation, shared by the Bosniaks and the Croats. These three major ethnic groups also compose the state Presidency, being elected in their respective entities.

“High Representatives caused a historic and national damage to Republika Srpska, and it is necessary to insist on their departure,” said Dodik.

Preventing the transfer of competencies from the entity to the state level is a great success of the politics he exercised, according to the Serb leader.

“Transfer of competencies was prevented at a crucial moment, and what had been transferred should be put on agenda. What the High Representatives imposed is not over yet,” he added.

Earlier this month Dodik left the Presidency's meeting with the PIC ambassadors, protesting over the absence of the RS flag in the room where this meeting was held.