The head of the Serb entity released a document on his website on the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton peace agreement, saying Croats were outvoted by Bosniaks and that solving the Croat issue was crucial.
The best solution would be a three-part Bosnia, which should also be the interest of the US as the initiator, creator and participant in the implementation of the Washington and Dayton accords, whereby the international treaty could become one of the biggest successes of US foreign policy, the document says, adding that if a three-part territorial structure with the three peoples does not prevail, the country will break up.
Dodik's document calls for a reconstruction of the Croat-Bosniak Federation entity with the establishment of a Croat territorial unit. This would provide conditions "for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a confederation, with powers defined by the Dayton agreement for the joint bodies."
Dodik said Bosnia would otherwise break up "into three ethnic territorial units, even if the Croat issue is not solved beforehand."
He said the solution to Bosnia's survival was dealing with the position of the Croat people.
The Washington agreement did not solve the Croat issue, and without the institutional protection of their collective rights within the Federation, the Croat people is neither a factor nor a partner for constitutional changes on the state level, the document says, strongly criticising the Bosniak policy in Bosnia and accusing it of outvoting the Croats and the Serbs.
Dodik's document also accuses the international community in Bosnia and claims that Zagreb manipulated with Bosnian Croats for a long time.