Bosnia Issues New Nationwide Arrest Warrant for Milorad Dodik: International Watch Increases

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced a countrywide arrest warrant for Milorad Dodik along with two other individuals. This action comes following the president of Bosnia’s Serb-majority Republika Srpska region disregarding a national-level warrant just last week.

The remaining two individuals mentioned are the entity’s Prime Minister Radovan Višković and National Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić. This warrant indicates that law enforcement officers across the nation should apprehend these individuals right away upon encountering them.

All of them are charged with actions against constitutional principles. According to reports from Bosnia’s media, Stevandić has departed for Serbia.

The country’s top prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for the three individuals.

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, which has not been implemented.

Dodik hasn’t made any comments regarding the latest warrant yet. However, he has shared on X that Republika Srpska is initiating measures to establish its own border police. This force will oversee the boundary separating the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Republika Srpska, which are both constituent entities within the nation.

Dodik, who had earlier stated that he does not acknowledge the authority of the country’s state-level prosecutor’s office, dismissed the legitimacy of last week’s warrants and refused any effort to apprehend him. He also declared that he would not travel to Sarajevo for an interrogation.

In late February, Bosnia’s national court found Dodik guilty for opposing the choices made by the country’s international peace envoy, Christian Schmidt, an action deemed illegal under the law. However, this ruling isn’t set in stone as Dodik has the option to challenge it through an appeal process.

Soon afterward, Dodik implemented new legislation aimed at prohibiting the functioning of state-level security and judicial bodies across roughly half of the Western Balkan nation’s area.

The decisions have been temporarily suspended by the state-level Constitutional Court.

EUFOR, the European peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, announced an increase in troop numbers due to rising tensions.