The President of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, said that RS coalition parties would collectively reject the draft UN Resolution on Srebrenica, announced for the next session at the end of April, denying the Srebrenica genocide in the process. Following the meeting of RS coalition partners on Tuesday, he also denied the existence of the state-level coalition with the Federation (FBiH) entity’s Troika.

“We will adopt the report of the international commission, which was delivered to the entire public, which states that there was no genocide in Srebrenica. It states that 3,741 people died during the entire period of the war, and that over 2,500 Serbs died in the same area. Considering that for genocide there must be an intention of a people to eliminate the other, this has not been proven,” he said.

Dodik then called BiH Foreign Minister Elmedin Konakovic's call to Serbian officials to support the UN Resolution thus removing collective responsibility from their people, a stupid approach.
“There is no collective responsibility, but the collective stupidity of Konakovic and his partners.”

The RS President also touched upon the recent RS parliament session conclusions according to which this entity would adopt their own Election Law, contrary to the state Election Law.

“It’s not an unconstitutional undertaking. Article 1B states that the Central Election Commission conducts elections for the BiH Presidency and the House of Representatives and nothing more. The fact that they usurped the earlier right to conduct elections does not mean that they are right,” Dodik added.

Dodik then denied the existence of the state-level coalition with the FbiH’s Troika.

“There is no state coalition. There is no coalition at the BiH level,” Dodik said. “There is no coalition, nor is BiH a state in the sense in which they want to say it is. Internally, RS is more of a state than Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he concluded.