The Bosnian Croat member of BiH’s tripartite Presidency, Zeljko Komsic, responded to statements by his Bosnian Serb colleague in the institutions, Milorad Dodik, saying he is glad that Dodik accepted an agreement in Brussels which calls for full adherence to all final and binding international and domestic court decisions.
Komsic was referring to the document accepted by the political parties represented in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the members of the BiH Presidency following a lengthy meeting with the senior European Union officials. The document, among other things, reiterates their commitment to preserving and building a peaceful, stable, sovereign and independent functional BiH and the country's EU integration.
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Dodik, who is also the leader of the ruling party in BiH’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity, previously said that the document represents a “complete defeat” for Komsic since it mentions the concept of “constituent peoples” in the country.
Komsic stated that the document consisted of two parts – a preamble which states the current situation in the constitutional and political sense in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where certain provisions of the BiH Constitution and a number of political decisions are mentioned, and a second part, which is “much more important” and describes what BiH should be like if it wants to be granted EU candidate status.
He said that in that part of the document, “legitimate representation” or “constituent peoples” is not mentioned, arguing that this is because it is not part of European standards.
“That is why priority is given to all judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, followed by the only unimplemented ruling of the BiH Constitutional Court,” he said, referring to the issue of Bosnia’s election law and the recommendation of the Venice Commission, “which in its opinion from 2005 said that House of Peoples should be abolished.”
He added that the document mentions OSCE recommendations on protecting the integrity of the election process in BiH, as well as the need to respect other judgments of international courts, such as those on the genocide and war crimes that took place in the country. It also mentions the need to respect rulings of domestic courts, such as decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court on state property and agricultural land, he said.
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