The decision by the Republika Srpska National Assembly to begin the drafting of legislation to create parallel institutions in Bosnia’s RS entity is a further escalatory step, Embassies of the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Italy and the EU Delegation said in a joint statement Friday, right after the RS Assembly session.
“Members of the governing coalition in the RS must be aware that continuing this dead end path of challenging the Dayton framework is damaging the economic prospects of the entity, threatening the stability of the country and the entire region and jeopardizing BiH’s future with the EU,” the western embassies said.
The Bosnian Serb-dominated entity parliament adopted a set of conclusions on Friday tasking the RS government to draft a set of laws effectively abolishing a number of reforms and state laws implemented over the past 26 years in which the RS and the Bosniak-Croat Federation (FBiH) entity transferred some of their competencies to the state level, strengthening the state and providing conditions for normal functioning of the state and creating a single economic market.
Some of those reforms led to the establishment of institutions including the army, judicial institutions and indirect taxation authority.
The embassies and the EU Delegation added that increased tensions and the blocking of the functionality of the institutions will restrict economic opportunities available to citizens, deter investment, and distract from the fight against corruption.
“RS politicians and those in the FBiH have opportunities to resume dialogue and to urgently find a resolution. We encourage all leaders to build mutual trust by immediately abandoning divisive and escalatory rhetoric and return to the state institutions in full capacity, where they also can talk about issues of disagreement,” said the statement from the top five western powers and the EU Special Representative in BiH.
They concluded by saying the focus should now be on moving forward on reforms important for the citizens and for the EU accession path.
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