President Stevandic met with the Chief of the Political Department of the British Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska Dr Nenad Stevandic talked in Banja Luka with the Chief of the Political Department of the British Embassy in BiH Helen Flewker. The meeting was about the actual political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it was highlighted that the prior policy is the one keeping the peace and easing the tensions.

President Stevandic considers that the Republic of Srpska has been aware of the lack of affection and support of many countries when making decisions is in question. Also, these decisions have been differently interpreted as have been many things in Bosnia and Herzegovina, referring to its future and past. Stevandic stressed that the Republic of Srpska defends its position with the power of arguments and that the decisions that have been brought are the result of the defensive policy of the Republic of Srpska.

The President of the National Assembly highlighted that the Republic of Srpska has never shown pretensions towards something that does not belong to it and that has not belonged to it by Dayton Peace Agreement, but that the Republic of Srpska exclusively respects the United Nations Charter on the Rights of Peoples and the European Convention on Human Rights.

President Stevandic believes that making political decisions should be exclusively the result of internal agreement and compromise and not the result of external pressures. Because every external pressure brings up tensions between people in Bosnia and Herzegovina and imposed external decisions regularly support only one side which compromises the other sides. He added that this policy should be left, and the only possibility for such a thing is closing the Office of the High Representative, and the constitution of proper institutions, first of all, the Constitutional Court of BiH, based on parity.

President Stevandic pointed out the importance of respecting the principles of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the principle of equality and consent of peoples and entities, stressing that these principles are not valid only in the Constitutional Court of BiH, where foreign judges in cooperation with Bosnian judges make discriminatory decisions.  

The President of the National Assembly once again, pointed to the necessity of closing the Office of the High Representative, whose work has been embodied by decisions of different high representatives and which have not been established on civilizational and democratic achievements.