RS President Milan Jelic told the press RS political representatives were concerned about the radicalisation of political and inter-ethnic relations in BiH following the International Court of Justice ruling in BiH's suit against Serbia and Montenegro for genocide.
"On RS's behalf we once again reject as ill-intentioned and harmful attempts to impose collective guilt and use such a distorted picture to cause a violent and radical change of BiH's constitutional organisation to the detriment of RS," Jelic said.
According to SRNA news agency, the statement said that only individuals must be held responsible for the crimes committed during the war in BiH who must be tried before the Hague tribunal or national courts.
BiH is the state of the Serb people as well and no one is entitled to take it away or impose solutions to any of three constituent peoples, the statement said, suggesting that the "Sarajevo political circle" wanted to "misuse" the ICJ verdict to deprive the Bosnian Serb people of political and other rights.
In the statement, the top RS officials extended their deepest condolences to the families of those killed in all war crimes in BiH, notably the families of the Srebrenica victims.
RS authorities will actively participate in tracing and prosecuting all those responsible for war crimes as this is an obligation, and expect the same expression of reverence for the victims of the 1990s war, regardless of nationality or faith, said the statement.
It was signed by the chairman of BiH's collective Presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic, BiH Council of Ministers chairman Nikola Spiric, the chairman of the BiH parliament's House of Representatives, Milorad Zivkovic, Jelic, RS parliamentary speaker Igor Radojicic, and RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik.