The court in Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Milorad Dodik and two others, after the President of Bosnian Serb-dominated Republika Srpska ignored a state-level arrest warrant last week.
An international arrest warrant has also been issued for the entity's Prime Minister Radovan Viskovic and the Speaker of the National Assembly Nenad Stevandic.
The order means that any police officer in the country who encounters the three people in question must immediately arrest them, as they are accused of unconstitutional behavior.
Meanwhile, Bosnian media reports that Stevandic has fled to Serbia.
Dodik has not yet commented on the new arrest warrant, but in a post on the 'X' platform he says that Republika Srpska is taking steps to form its own border police, in order to control the border between the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, the two entities in the country.
Dodik, who previously said he does not recognize the country's state-level prosecutor's office, has rejected the validity of last week's warrant and any attempts to arrest him, and said he will not go to Sarajevo for questioning.
Bosnia's state-level court convicted Dodik in late February of defying the decisions of the country's international peace envoy, Christian Schmidt, which constitutes a criminal act. The ruling is not final and Dodik can appeal it.
Shortly thereafter, Dodik introduced new laws aimed at banning the functioning of state-level security and judicial institutions in what encompasses about half of the Western Balkan country's territory.
These decisions have been temporarily suspended by the Constitutional Court at the state level. (A2 Televizion)
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