"An absence of support from Sarajevo (for Jeremic's nomination) will be a sign to us that Bosnia and Herzegovina doesn't wish to normalise relations in the region in a right way," Dodik said after meeting with Jeremic in Banja Luka.
Dodik again challenged Bosnia and Herzegovina's statehood by calling it "a service of the entities" and "a state union". He said that it was of utmost importance for the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, that Bosnia and Herzegovina should support Jeremic's nomination.
The nomination was earlier opposed by Bosnian Presidency member Zeljko Komsic, who expressed his dissatisfaction with Jeremic's attitude towards Bosnia and Herzegovina and his interference in its internal affairs.
Jeremic said that he had met with Dodik as part of regular consultations, adding that they had discussed relations between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and the situation in the region.
Jeremic said that the situation in the region had improved as of late, primarily after Serbia was granted the status of EU membership candidate, and that progress had also been made in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For these reasons, he said, the OHR with its existing powers was superfluous.
"I hope that after so many years of existing on life support, that institution will cease its activity because it actually hampers progress not just in this country but in the entire region as well and its system of governing from the outside is contrary to democratic processes," the minister said.
He said that Republika Srpska had become "a locomotive of integration" and that Serbia would continue to support it, both politically and in terms of expertise.
Dodik said he was supporting the Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic in a forthcoming parliamentary election in Serbia.