BANJA LUKA, Dec 21 (Hina) - Muslim and Croat representatives in BosnianSerb institutions support measures imposed on Serb officials by HighRepresentative Paddy Ashdown as well as the US government's decisionto ban leaders of the Serb
Democratic Party (SDS) and the Party ofDemocratic Progress (PDP) from entering the USA over the failure ofBosnian Serb authorities to fulfill their obligations to the Hague warcrimes tribunal over the past nine years, the Croat vice-president ofRepublika Srpska, Ivan Tomljenovic, said on Tuesday.
BANJA LUKA, Dec 21 (Hina) - Muslim and Croat representatives in
Bosnian Serb institutions support measures imposed on Serb officials by High
Representative Paddy Ashdown as well as the US government's decision to ban
leaders of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and the Party of Democratic Progress
(PDP) from entering the USA over the failure of Bosnian Serb authorities to
fulfill their obligations to the Hague war crimes tribunal over the past nine
years, the Croat vice-president of Republika Srpska, Ivan Tomljenovic, said on
Tuesday.After a meeting with representatives of the Croat and Muslim communities
in the Republika Srpska institutions, Tomljenovic told reporters that they
wanted top Serb officials to assume political responsibility for the current
situation in the entity instead of blocking the work of its institutions.
Participants in the meeting said they welcomed the resignations of
Republika Srpska Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic and Bosnia's Foreign Minister
Mladen Ivanic if the resignations meant that they considered themselves
responsible for lack of results in cooperation between the entity and the UN
tribunal.
"However, if the purpose of the resignations is to obstruct the measures
adopted by the High Representative, then we condemn them," Tomljenovic said,
stressing that Ashdown's request for the establishment of a united defence and
security system in the country was in the interest of all citizens.