In a statement delivered to Hina in Sarajevo, the embassy recalled that United States diplomats in Bosnia first called on Covic to resign on March 16.
The European Union supports this position and the US Embassy maintains that Covic should resign so that state institutions could function normally and for the benefit of the citizens, the statement said.
The crime and corruption department at Bosnia's State Prosecutor's Office on March 3 indicted Covic, Constitutional Court president Mate Tadic, four Ivankovic-Lijanovic brothers, and Sarajevo Law School professor Zdravko Lucic. The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina confirmed the indictment on March 10.
Covic is charged with taking bribes in his capacity as finance minister in the government of Bosnia's Croat-Muslim entity for enabling the Lijanovici company to avoid paying duties on the import of meat and meat products.
The US Embassy's second call on him to resign came on the eve of a session of the presidency of Bosnia's Croatian Democratic Union party (HDZ BH), which convenes in the southern town of Mostar on Monday and is expected to discuss the possible resignation.
Representatives of the other parties making up Bosnia's ruling coalition said at a meeting yesterday that they would acknowledge the HDZ BH's decisions on the matter.
Covic has so far declined to publicly comment on the open requests that he resign which have been made by the international community's High Representative in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, and representatives of influential European countries and the European Commission.
Covic met Holy See State Secretary Cardinal Angelo Sodano in the Vatican yesterday. The Bosnian Presidency said the trip was of a private nature.