Dodik defends idea of referendum on judicial institutions

MOSTAR, July 29 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, whose insistence on a referendum aimed at challenging the existence of the Court and Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has elicited strong criticism from the EU and the United States, has sent a letter to Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency and leaders of neighbouring countries to explain his position that the planned referendum would be in line with the Dayton peace agreement and that the international community's High Representative to Sarajevo had no powers to set up state-level judicial institutions.