Because of the repeated “secessionist provocations”, Austria and Germany have proven the Bosnian Serbian leader Milorad Dodik, against whom there is an arrest order in his country, with an access ban. Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger had previously spoken for a sanctioning of Dodiks. The nationalist politician with good contacts in Moscow is already occupied by American sanctions. Previously, joint EU sanctions have been prevented by a veto Hungary.
Meinl Reisinger announced the imposition of the ban, which also affects two other politicians from Republika SRPSKA, with the German EU State Secretary Anna Lührmann in Sarajevo on Thursday during her visit. “Milorad Dodik has driven his secessionist provocations and actions into a new tip and has clearly surpassed the red lines,” Meinl Reisinger emphasized. He threatens safety, stability, constitutional order and territorial integrity of the Western Balkans. Lührmann added: “The bow is clear at night!”
Dodik also abandons his population, who wants a road to Europe, “explained the Red-Weiß-Spread Foreign Minister in an interview with Austrian journalists in Sarajevo. That is why it is” important to show a clear lead “. The sanctions are” a strong signal. The word of the Austrians here has weight in Bosnia-Herzegovina, “said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who also announced that” the subject was further discussed with its EU colleagues “.
Input prohibition is a “real problem”
According to diplomats, the approved measure also includes Dodiks from Austria. The access ban, especially for Austria, is “a real problem for the 66-year-old,” the high representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, told journalists. Dodik uses Vienna “as a contact point to meet one or the other. The symbolic value is very large.”
There is a national arrest warrant against Dodik. Interpol refused to publish an international arrest warrant on Wednesday because it was a political procedure. The Bosnian constitutional court had applied for an international arrest warrant last week against Dodik, RS Parliament President Nenad Stevandić and RS Prime Minister Radovan Višković. The Serbian leader unilaterally declared the jurisdiction of the judiciary and police of the Bosnian Central State for the Republika SRPSKA, although the Republika SRPSKA is part of Bosnia and threatened to split the part of the country. Two weeks earlier, the Bosnian public prosecutor had also ordered the arrest of Dodiks because he had not met a summons for the statement.
Dodik thanks Orbán and Putin
In recent days, the 66-year-old went to Israel for the first time, where he participated in a conference, and then to Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin in Moscow. After his return to Thursday, Dodik thanked both Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for her “support”.
Source: Krone
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