Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that Serbia will not allow anyone to abolish the Republika Srpska (RS), Serb-majority entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Republika Srpska authorities have been fiercely disputing a Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitutional Court ruling, according to which all agricultural land is the state property, with Bosnian Serb political leaders saying the RS could secede.  

“The Party of Democratic Action (SDA – the main Bosniak party) was formed on the policies of (the late war-time Bosnian President) Alija Izetbegovic as defined by him more than 40 years ago that an Islamic state can be formed once the Moslems have a majority. They now have a majority… This can all seem banal to you but let’s not turn out to be right later when they topple a trade centre. Bin Laden had a Bosnian passport,” Dacic told the pro-government TV Prva.  

The Foreign Minister said that the Dayton Agreement (which brought peace to Bosnia in the mid-1990s) is being revised. He said that Bosnian Presidency member Milorad Dodik’s words “Goodbye Bosnia and Herzegovina, Welcome RS-Exit” at a session of the RS parliament are part of a political struggle.  

“These are not just empty words but a clear message: “Continue this policy of endangering the equality of the Serb people and there will be trouble,” he said, recalling that the competencies of the Constitutional Court are only what is agreed by the two entities and which does not include land and forests.