Bosnia court orders international arrest warrant for Srpska Republic leader

The Interpol office in Sarajevo has issued an international warrant for the arrest of the President of the Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, RS) within Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Speaker of it's National Assembly in suspicion of attempting to undermine the constitutional order as they have left the country despite a domestic warrant for their arrest.

According to Interpol’s local office in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the warrants against President Milorad Dodik and Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić are still requiring approval from the organization's General Secretariat, Caliber.Az report citing Balkan media outlets.

This development follows earlier reports that revealed the parliament's intend to adopt a new constitution, aiming to transform the republic away from it's current status as being an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina into a "state of the Serbian people" with its own army and the right to secede.

On March 19, Bosnian police confirmed an arrest warrant for Dodik, accusing him of “endangering the country's constitutional order” after a Bosnian court sentenced him back in February, together with Serb Republic's PM Radovan Viskovic and Stevandić. The three appeared in public several times following the issuance of the warrant, attended government meetings, and held press conferences.

By Nazrin Sadigova