KARAN: POLITICAL SARAJEVO MUST STOP AGGRESSIVELY UNDERMINING THE DAYTON AGREEMENT OF THE THREE PEOPLES

BANJA LUKA, AUGUST 29 /SRNA/ - Given the fact that political Sarajevo is once again sending the message that the will of the Serb people means nothing, it is clear that we are at a crossroads between survival and the right to make political decisions and democratically express our will or the acceptance of imposed decisions by a foreigner acting outside the mandate of the Dayton Agreement and outside any parliamentary process, stated professor of constitutional law Siniša Karan.

"Their goal is a compliant Serb, a compliant president who will look the other way when yet another unelected foreigner imposes decisions and seizes Serbian forests, fields, or rivers," Karan emphasized in a statement to SRNA. He pointed out that the answer of Srpska to this legal violence, unseen in the civilized world, is the referendum on October 25, when it will be confirmed that authority in Srpska does not belong to outsiders, but exclusively to its people. "For 33 years they have been working to make BiH solely theirs, a unitary, Muslim-dominated state, while we firmly defend the fact that without Srpska there is no Dayton BiH. We all agreed to Dayton BiH, we all gave up a part of ourselves, set aside part of our hopes and our goals. However, it should be reminded that this very consent can itself become subject to reconsideration in the case of fundamentally changed circumstances regarding the Dayton Agreement. The unitarists consciously ignore that the Dayton framework and the agreement of the three peoples is the only possible formula for the existence of the BiH state union," Karan stressed. He told SRNA that the joint-level institutions and occupiers must stop aggressively undermining the 1995 agreement of the three peoples, and recognize where their obsession with unitarism is leading. "The Serbian people are no one's subjects. We created Republika Srpska on the basis of the universal right of peoples to self-determination, defended it with blood, and preserved it in peace. Recognized as a party during the negotiations in Geneva and New York, and then in Dayton, Republika Srpska has been internationally verified, and that cannot be taken from us. It is precisely the will of the people and the /internal/ sovereignty of Srpska within the BiH state union, grounded in international law, that gives us the strength to state clearly: the question of the self-determination of Republika Srpska is no longer a decision to be made, because the Serb people have already decided. The only question is when that decision will be implemented in full capacity," Professor Karan concluded.