European Union (EU) diplomats do not have to come to the ceremony marking Serbia’s Statehood Day and the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising in Orasac, if they are bothered by the presence of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency member Milorad Dodik, Serbian Assembly Speaker Ivica Dacic said Saturday.

Belgrade's Blic daily announced Friday night that the ambassadors of EU countries will not attend the gathering on the occasion of the Serbian Statehood Day in Orasac, because Bosnia’s Serb Presidency member Milorad Dodik announced his presence. The EU warned the government of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity that the adoption of the Bill n the Entity High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) was “an unacceptable violation of the constitutional and legal order of BiH.”

“We don’t interfere in decisions on who will come to commemorations,” Dacic told reporters at the headquarters of the Socialist Party of Serbia which he is a leader of, hinting at the commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and the ceremony in Paris when Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was seated near representatives of the countries which had started the war.

“I did not hear,” Dacic added, “that the European Union reacted when (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan held an election rally in Sarajevo.”

the Assembly Speaker said that it was not the ambassadors’ job to interfere in Serbia's internal affairs, stating that if the information that the ambassadors of EU countries will not come to the ceremony in Orasac is correct, then it would not be “a reasonable move.”

We are a sovereign and independent country and it is not up to them to decide on that, Dacic added, noting that “if it was up to them, we would not have started the uprising.”

Asked whether Dodik's moves are already harming Serbia, Dacic said that everyone in BiH was creating a problem for Serbia, “as a whole, not just Dodik.”

He then falsely claimed that Serbia is the guarantor of the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in BiH and that they were not the ones who wrote it but the US who should defend it. The Assembly Speaker added that if Dodik is the one undermining the constitutional order of BiH, then Bosniaks are undermining it as well by undermining the RS entity.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated on Friday night on TV Prva that the reaction of representatives of EU countries was wrong.

“It never occurred to me to change or exclude the leadership of the Republika Srpska entity or to consider something like that,” Vucic noted and added that he would award a decoration to RS President Zeljka Cvijanovic.